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...this to the growing pile of previously unthinkable fallout from the nation's economic crisis: in 2009, the star-studded parties and corporate blowouts of Super Bowl week might take a backseat to, believe it or not, the actual game...
...Still, some observers say the FDIC and other regulators need to do more to limit losses. If losses pile up faster for the FDIC than it can replenish its fund by taking in new insurance fees from banks, taxpayers could eventually be on the hook for its losses...
...runs Apple, and he has been running Apple for a long time now. Steve is the face of the company and very involved with product development but Tim is the guy who takes all those designs and turns it into a big pile of cash." -Michael Janes, the first general manager of Apple's online store, Wired...
...money does not preoccupy Andrew Wyeth, and his whimsies are mostly a cover-up for what engrosses him, the subjects of his work. The most famous of these is a woman named Christina Olson. He has painted eight temperas of her or her house, a decrepit three-story clapboard pile atop a knoll near the Maine seacoast. One of them, Christina's World, now 15 years old, is one of the most durable and disquieting images of 20th century America. Against the wall of landscape that leads up to her house, the crippled body of an ageless woman seems...
...Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing...