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...Sure, there were the usual red-carpet questions about dresses and accessories, and the usual award-show drama behind the drama. (Were Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler sitting too close together?) There was even the routine celebration from the podium, relishing the Globes' recognition and basking in its Oscar implications...
...Penelope Cruz even extended an awkward televised red-carpet interview to highlight her Haitian cause. The famously press-wary actress volunteered to stay past the commercial break to get an opportunity to speak on Haiti. "Tonight cannot just be about the movies," Cruz said. Maggie Gyllenhaal took to the stage with the sole purpose of reminding people to donate money. "In the midst of all of this, please remember how to get involved and offer your support to the people of Haiti," she said, directing people to the appropriate donation section of the NBC website...
...banking business is 55%. Those cost savings translate into lower lending rates, which has allowed Abbey to regain its share of the mortgage market and then some. It now makes 1 in 7 new mortgages in the U.K. and Abbey's 1,300 branches will sport red Santander logos next year...
Still, for a bank that can get a bit smug about its meticulousness, the Madoff stain, albeit minor, will be hard to rub out. It's also one of the reasons why Santander's private-banking business is in the red. "We were caught in a fraud, but it was still a mistake," concedes chief financial officer Juan Antonio Alvarez. (See pictures of the demise of Bernie Madoff...
...Luna's dreamy Spain and the Philippines, is painted on a tall and narrow canvas and depicts a European woman in a red gown, her hand proprietarily on the hip of a darker-skinned Filipina as she ushers the latter up a stairway to a pastel-colored horizon. The allegorical meaning of Hidalgo's oil composition The Christian Virgins Being Exposed to the Populace is rather more pointed. Playing masterfully with light and darkness, the painter chooses to depict a scene from ancient Rome wherein naked Christian virgins are being lasciviously peddled by slave traders. "Hidalgo wanted to say that...