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...weed was redolent among Globe finalists. Robert Downey, Jr., who might have been named for his starring role in Iron Man - except that the HFPA, like the other critics groups, has an unwritten rule outlawing blockbuster action pictures - found a place in Supporting Actor, as the doped-out, blackfaced Method actor in Tropic Thunder (also from the Apatow factory). He was joined in that category by another Thunder actor, Tom Cruise. He does a splendidly sulfurous comic turn as a movie studio exec; but, as the Globe committee hardly needs to be reminded, he's also Tom Cruise. (See TIME...
...Congress to evaluate Treasury's economic-rescue efforts. The board, which is headed by Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren, criticized Treasury for failing to set up a program to monitor the effectiveness of TARP. In particular, the oversight board said it was important for Treasury to institute a method to determine whether the banks receiving government funds are using the money to make loans. "American taxpayers need to know that their money is having a tangible effect on improving financial stability, credit availability, and the economy as a whole," the oversight board wrote. "Treasury needs to provide a detailed assessment...
...Nationwide. Part of his responsibilities included maintaining a database of patients who had been treated by the hospital's radiology department using Image Guided Foreign Body Removal, a technique that was developed by Shiels during his Army days to help remove foreign objects like shrapnel from soft tissue. Shiels' method was less invasive than surgery, which often requires an incision of 2 to 3 inches and can lead to damage in surrounding tissues or organs; the new method requires a quarter-inch incision and uses a combination of ultrasound and fluoroscopy - live X-ray - to carefully guide forceps...
According to news reports, Blagojevich said of Mell, "There's a method of operation by people like him, and they've been doing politics for years, and they like to leverage and probe and threaten and bluster and bully until they get their way." Political observers say there was a brief attempt at reconciliation between the two men after the death of Mell's wife. But the feud resumed. As the scandal broke this week, Mell barely mentioned his son-in-law as he publicly comforted and defended his daughter...
...family, as well as an outlet for all that extra energy not spent on studying for midterms. Nothing gets the holiday message across better than the perfect $5 gag gift from CVS. And beautifying your sad white walls by covering them with paper snowflakes is a legitimate procrastination method. Ask anyone. Besides, anxiously anticipating Santa coming down my chimney really tops off all those preparation efforts. Okay, maybe I just want to be five again. But in all honesty, the magic of Christmas doesn’t have to die when you become a slave to the Harvard system. Embrace...