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Steve Eisman knew that calamity would eventually come. The hedge-fund manager bet big against the subprime-mortgage market and won. So did 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...
...soldier who turns out to be a German spy in Billy Wilder's 1953 war comedy Stalag 17. The film provided an early view of Graves' ability to play both a hero type and its own internal contradiction. Throughout the '50s he alternated supporting parts in big films (The Night of the Hunter, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell) with leads in It Conquered the World and other sci-fi anticlassics ripe for later mockery on Mystery Science Theater...
...Segal's statin ended up preventing her from living a heart-healthy lifestyle. A month after she started taking the drug, she suffered muscle pain so severe, she had to stop all physical activity and was unable to sleep at night. Although her husband, who was worried about her risk of heart attack, pleaded with her to stay on the drug, she discontinued using it. The muscle pain receded. "My husband was scared for me. Doctors scare you. But I was in so much pain, I told him I would have rather died than stay on them," says Segal...
...night in 1995, I was standing in a bookstore in Berkeley, Calif., when a Moore image rooted me to the floor--and launched a book. I eventually searched out the shooter, and we became friends. He was an unassuming man with a softly charged voice, who probably didn't weigh 140 lb. But even when he was in his mid-70s, you could see the old Golden Glove boxer and ex-Marine who'd refused to back down. He once modestly said about his work, which he wouldn't have called art, although it unquestionably was: "I project myself into...
...four juniors from Northampton High School slept in tents on Cambridge Common last night as part of The Leadership Campaign, organized by the statewide organization Students for a Just and Stable Future. The campaign is calling for 100 percent clean energy in Massachusetts...