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...Mike Burry, a social recluse who began investing at night during his medical residency. Jamie Mai and Charlie Ledley, two 30-somethings who started trading in a Berkeley garage, "assumed that there was some grownup in charge of the financial system." There wasn't. In The Big Short, Michael Lewis, who chronicled an earlier era of Wall Street excess in 1989's Liar's Poker, tells the story of investors who asked questions that no one else would (like, What happens if house prices stop rising?) and came to the chilling conclusion that collapse was inevitable. Lewis takes us inside...
Then Dakota Fanning gets ahold of the film, steals it from Stewart and seduces us utterly. Fanning plays Cherie Currie, recruited at age 15 by Svengali Kim Fowley (a witty Michael Shannon) to sing and provide what he calls "jailbait sex appeal." The movie was based on Currie's memoir, Neon Angel, so we get a much fuller picture of her home life than that of anyone else in the band, even Jett. Currie has an alcoholic father (Brett Cullen), a foolish mother (Tatum O'Neal) and a sister, Marie (Riley Keough), who in real life is an identical twin...
GREGORY SMITH, a U.S. military spokesman, on being pressured by Defense Department official Michael Furlong, who is under investigation for allegedly hiring private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to track and kill suspected militants; it is illegal for the military to hire contractors as spies...
Also competing for the Crimson were freshman Michael Tom, who finished 21st in the sabre, junior Hao Meng, who placed 16th in foil, and sophomore James Hawrot and senior Karl Harmenberg, who captured 14th and 16th in the epée, respectively...
...Tobin Project Acting Executive Director Stephanie Khurana. Educational consultant Gail O’Keefe will join Melton, who also co-directs the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, at Eliot House. McDonald will be put in charge of Mather House, along with her husband, McGill University Associate Professor of Medicine Michael D. Rosengarten...