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...While Congress may support the Treasury's desire to have a blended bailout of the banks which includes government and private money, coordinating how those investments will go into financial firms and how it will be determined which piece of the pie private equity will get may be beyond the capacity of the personnel that the department has in place...
...will serve as the Institute’s first director. “I was the one who met with Terry and engaged him in a conversation about how transforming a gift like this could be,” Walker said. “I told him about this pie in the sky idea to get a bunch of flexible funding and get really smart people together to think outside the box.” Walker approached Ragon—who had business of his own in South Africa—a year and a half ago regarding funding...
...Summers, his deputy Jason Furman and the White House's top congressional liaison, Phil Schiliro, laid out the broad principles they wanted the bill to adhere to, but when it came to actual content, they deferred to the committee leaders. "Because otherwise what's the point in doing something, pie in the sky, if it doesn't have the votes?" the staffer says...
...audacious routines on religion and death. But there are also generous helpings of early bits from his short-hair days (cracking up Johnny Carson with his Hippy Dippy Weatherman) and rareties like Carlin sitting at the piano on Arsenio Hall's show, accompanying himself in a rendition of "Cherry Pie" - as well as a generous helping of his playful but pointed riffs on language, like his account of the progress of military jargon from "shell shock" to "battle fatigue" to "post-traumatic stress disorder...
...first song memorializing the musicians - Eddie Cochran's "Three Stars" - was recorded just one day after their deaths. But Don McLean's 1971 single "American Pie" turned the plane crash into a metaphor for the moment when the United States lost its last shred of innocence. McLean envisioned that last Buddy Holly concert in Clear Lakes, Iowa: teenagers in pink carnations and pick-up trucks, dancing and falling in love and dancing some more. The snow fell silently outside as the country teetered on the brink of the 1960s; no one in the ballroom had any idea what would happen...