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...must have been around 17 - he tagged along with some chums to pick up work as a film extra. A friendly director put him up for an audition at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. "As I stood on the stage, I knew at that moment that all I'd ever wanted to be was an actor. I'd found my true vocation...
...still called the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP - rather than as a straightforward recapitalization of troubled banks. Treasury has since switched to the latter approach, so far putting $216 billion of the TARP hoard into capital injections. On Wednesday, Paulson said that Treasury has concluded that, for the moment at least, buying illiquid mortgage securities "is not the most effective way to use TARP funds." Instead, Treasury will look to help nonbank lenders involved with credit cards, auto loans and other forms of consumer finance...
...After McCain’s presidential campaign ended in defeat last week, more incriminating details about his vice-presidential pick emerged. In a moment better suited to “Nailin’ Palin,” the pornographic film she inspired, than to a presidential campaign, Palin reportedly greeted staffers at the Republican convention wearing only a towel. Whether or not this instance fits into a pattern of Palin using her sexuality as a means to an end, it certainly doesn’t demonstrate discretion or self-awareness...
...We’re lucky that at the moment, Harvard’s financial situation is bearable. But in a society that has watched an institution as seemingly indestructible as Lehman Brothers collapse, nothing can be certain. Donahue insists that “there won’t be a problem with funding the scholarship program this year.” But even Donahue admits that the endowment will suffer along with the rest of the countries financial state...
...series of gaffes—missed extra points, fumbled returns, a snap over the punter’s head, a blocked punt against Lehigh (the Crimson actually blocked one in the same game), and a punt return TD—all within the first eight games. And, for the moment, no one has stepped up to fill the role of playmaker.“What we need from a returns standpoint, we need someone to really jump out and identify themselves as…a real threat as a returner,” Murphy said.In the meantime, the Crimson will...