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...Please don't judge Judy. The whole Witwicky family speaks at warp speed, so it is a challenge to make out all that they say (LaBeouf in particular is like John Cusack on amphetamines), but Judy and her husband Ron (Kevin Dunn) are the movie's main sources of comic relief. Or maybe my affection for them had deeper psychological roots. Maybe I saw them as my allies. The movie is like the play date from hell, the kind where a crew of children reduce your home to rubble and conduct endless bouts of loud war on the living-room...
Shiller and Summers in particular came to revel in tweaking the rational-market establishment. Shiller declared in 1984 that the logical leap from observing that markets were unpredictable to concluding that prices were right was "one of the most remarkable errors in the history of economic thought." Summers described how financial markets were often dominated by "idiots" (he later dubbed them "noise traders" and co-authored a series of academic papers showing how their errors could move prices) and lamented at the 1984 meeting of the American Finance Association that "virtually no mainstream research in the field of finance...
...Formula One's governing body plans to take legal action to prevent the teams from forming their own series. "The actions of FOTA as a whole, and Ferrari in particular, amount to serious violations of law, including willful interference with contractual relations, direct breaches of Ferrari's legal obligations and a grave violation of competition law," an FIA statement read. As the two sides dig in, the biggest loser is the sport. If Formula One does end up splitting, says Aylett, "people might go watch rugby...
...place in 2004. Though this year's grade does not take into consideration the committee's ongoing efforts, Medical School spokesman David J. Cameron said that it "more accurately reflects" the school's commitment to holding its conflict of interest policies to high standards. Conflict of interest issues drew particular national spotlight over the last year as Grassley charged several prominent researchers at Stanford and Emory, among other instituitons, with failing to disclose millions in compensation from drug companies. The heightened attention prompted many medical schools nationwide to take a closer look at existing conflict of interest policies. Allan Coukell...
...nominee will need political skills to deal with the many voices that will want to be heard on cybersecurity, including many government departments - the Pentagon, various intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security, among others - and private-sector bodies. "There's a lot of rice in this particular rice bowl," Beckstrom says. He knows from personal experience how difficult that can be: earlier this year, he quit as Director of the National Cybersecurity Center in March, citing interdepartmental politics...