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...Goldmember. Men in Black II enlists Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart--aha, they are aliens! In Mr. Deeds, Al Sharpton delivers a rappin' elegy and John McEnroe teaches Adam Sandler how to (mis)behave in New York City. Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal features bits by Brad Pitt and his Se7en director David Fincher...
America's gilded ages have reliably ended in scandal, followed by soul-searching and reform. But investors are divided over what needs to be done. The gentle, self-policing era that SEC chairman Harvey Pitt proclaimed last October is dead and gone, but even some battered investors don't trust grandstanding lawmakers to distinguish between reforms that are needed and those that will cramp the recovery even more. That was the argument Dick Cheney and others made to the President--that in the long run, Bush will suffer more if he gets a quick political boost from reforms that strangle...
...high as 24.9% on a standard card. The big banks are hardly standing still. Barclays, for example, invested $468 million last year to improve its website; Smile, in contrast, will spend no more than $5.8 million to upgrade its system. And Jon Kirk, a banking analyst at Fox-Pitt Kelton, says some traditional banks automatically offer lower rates - mainly on mortgages - to customers they consider vulnerable to the allure of pure plays, such as young marrieds with high mortgage payments, hoping they'll stay put. If the stand-alones are to challenge the giants, Kirk says, "they need to constantly...
...America's gilded ages have reliably ended in scandal, followed by soul-searching and reform. But investors are divided over what needs to be done. The gentle, self-policing era that sec chairman Harvey Pitt proclaimed last October is dead and gone, but even some battered investors don't trust grandstanding lawmakers to distinguish between reforms that are needed and those that will cramp the recovery even more. That was the argument Dick Cheney and others made to the President-that in the long run, Bush will suffer more if he gets a quick political boost from reforms that strangle...
...deputy chief of staff Josh Bolten are pushing hard for proposals that go well beyond the President's earlier calls to hold executives more accountable for the accuracy of their balance sheets. One option under consideration: appointment of a special counsel within the Justice Department, in part because Pitt has failed to restore investor confidence...