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...What does that mean for regulation? You can set up certain decision rules that try to keep people on the straight and narrow, but too much regulation about the details is going to get you in trouble. The big banks should probably be fairly boring and reasonably well regulated. And their core businesses are - but they were able to get away from their core activities and move further out on the risk spectrum and jeopardize the whole operation. So much more stringent capital requirements for banks as they get larger, to make sure that as they get larger they...
...Naughton, a petite Jennifer Hudson type) is the classical pianist with the urge to sing - when she does so the first time in the movie, her eyes well up with tears and the preview audience burst into applause - but her uptight parents want her to walk the straight and narrow. They, by the way, are referred to in the cast credit's only as Denise's Mother and Denise's Father, which is exactly the way you want parents dealt with in a movie like this...
...Amram says. “To think a hundred years ago, we would have been in Radcliffe Yard, needle-pointing a script.”Despite their work last year, Amram and Petri still had to complete the script comp required of all potential HPT writers in order to narrow the field of applicants to the final individuals chosen. Their prior experience undoubtedly helped the duo secure their positions again, but Amram credits another unlikely resource that might have been of assistance. “We thought of the name of the show early on,” she says...
...Barack • despite endless droning by pundits about the overexposure of, including one excruciating attempt at humor about, poll shows two-thirds of respondents do not feel that they're seeing too much of • ecstasy-inducing faulting of for "his determination to rely on rational analysis, rather than narrow decisions" by the terminally ridiculous David Broder • reported rethinking by - despite the ominous Cheneyesque promise by the credibility-free Condoleezza Rice (who, remember, ignored very specific pre-9/11 warnings about bin Laden) that "another terrorist attack in the U.S." will be the result - of disastrous no-win Afghanistan...
...offer was everything they didn't care about. I had the wrong car, I had the wrong watch, I had the wrong shirt, I had the wrong shoes. In the process of doing that research I figured out how ill equipped I was to interact with that very narrow sliver of American society...