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Together Bertie, Clea and the grandiose, poetry-spouting, heavily medicated Thad ratchet from party to party, from mansion to beach house to resort, propping one another up. They're identically damaged souls, orbiting one another faster and faster, out of control, lost in space. There's plenty of sharp, funny show-biz business here. The celebrity cameos come thick and fast (Sharon Stone! Rob Reiner!), and Thad's guest spot on Starwatch is hilariously embarrassing--he has to wear alien makeup and say things like "I believe ... we are being appropriated by the Vorbalidian System." But Wagner boldly goes beyond...
Matt Stehle knew he had to ratchet up his level of play this season for Harvard to have any hope of competing in the Ivy League...
...professors warned that deficits were “politically addictive” but economically disastrous. They said that federal debt could ratchet up interest rates and set off a new round of inflation...
...fact, SMFG made the offer to UFJ management and not directly to shareholders, meaning the bid is not yet truly hostile. But it does ratchet up the pressure on MTFG and UFJ, which has already faced criticism for hastily dismissing previous SMFG overtures, to fully disclose the terms of their offer. Although UFJ has said it is "prudently scrutinizing" SMFG's latest bid, analysts do not expect the MTFG deal to be aborted. "It's hard to imagine that UFJ will switch partners at this point," says Nozomu Kunishige, an analyst at BNP Paribas. Still, Nishikawa has another option: mount...
Slow Going In Darfur To ratchet up the pressure on the Sudanese government - which has promised to disarm Arab militiamen accused of killing 30,000 and forcing more than 1.4 million from their homes - United Nations special representative Jan Pronk and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw made separate visits to the country's western Darfur region. Pronk will give a report to the Security Council this week. If Khartoum has not made progress it could face international sanctions. Pronk said that Khartoum had taken some positive steps - setting aside safe areas, for instance - but that violence continues. After touring...