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Anyway, some kind of royalty; it's hers by birth. Swinton was born into a clan of warrior aristocrats whose Scottish home dates back to the ninth century (they supposedly earned the family name by clearing the area of wild boar), and who served prominently in every major British military and political skirmish for a thousand years. One recent ancestor invented the tank; another helped invent television. Over the millennium the Swintons were deeded huge swatches of prime Scottish real estate; Tilda's father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, a.k.a. the Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, lives in the family estate...
...stepping off a curb. Beyonce's Obsessed and the Zac Efron 17 Again filled out the top five. Less successful at reviving a dormant film form - the 1970s blaxploitation comedy - was the druggy Next Day Air, which took in just $4 million. It finished first only in the Cool Name for a Director category: Benny Boom. (Read about Star Trek's evolution through the decades...
...mysterious illness surfaced at least three days ago, with inquisitive questions regarding envelopes received in student mailboxes. The just smaller than letter size envelopes were sent via university mail, as seen through the label which also contained the student's name and house. These were not nice Avery labels either--the typed sheets of paper were taped onto the envelope. No return address included, of course...
...interesting Ultimate tidbit: despite the sport's name, the quickest way to offend an frisbee player is to call the spinning object a "frisbee." It is a disc. FlyBy just thought you should know in order to avoid future scuffles...
...which goes to show that whatever his faults, Tim Geithner knows how to game America's confidence in the banking system. But does that mean the stress tests themselves are one big confidence game? Perhaps. The playwright David Mamet said such scams get their name not from the confidence the victim places in the con man, but the trust the con man pretends to place in the victim to elicit trust in return. By that standard, Geithner may be the most effective con man around, for better and for worse...