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...particular preparation to get yourself into the mind-set to portray Omar? Yeah, I did a lot of research into what it means to be a black man in Baltimore. I wanted Omar to look, sound and feel like someone who was born and raised in Baltimore - not a New York kid trying to portray that. So I had to learn the Baltimore dialects so the writing could sound authentic. They'd write things like "Do tell?" and "How do?" We don't talk like that in Brooklyn. I thought, What does that mean? "Do tell?" That's not gangster...
...Wall Street? By facing the music now. Toughen up borrowing requirements by banks. Increase oversight, especially when it comes to regulating derivatives. Perhaps enact a 21st century version of Glass-Steagall. And don't allow any institution to become too big to fail. Does that mean some countries may get ahead of us in terms of financial innovation? Sure, but so what? For much of this decade, both England and Iceland were considered friendlier to capital markets than the U.S. England is now threadbare; Iceland is bankrupt...
...years from now, people who are investing today are going to have fairly nice returns." Over time, stocks have averaged a total return of about 9%. Remember, stocks were down 1.2% per year this decade, after being up 18.2% per year in the 1990s. Returns always revert to the mean. (See the worst business deals...
...exhibitionists at the exhibition, though there are plenty of them, goose-pimpled in the chilly air. It's the way that sex, the perennial tool for advertisers seeking to sell products, has been commoditized into a must-have range of products. Nowadays, keeping up with the Joneses might mean flaunting specialist furniture such as a ?2,500 ($4,130) Stretching Bed from Dungeon Equipment or a ?115 ($190) Funswing, which looks like a cross between a hammock and a baby bouncer and could be mistaken for a comfortable perch for watching TV if the brochure didn't deploy explicit photos...
...from Kenya, I know what forged elections mean,” said Mwaura...