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...picture is worth catching for the delicate and toxic nuances of Rudd's performance. And one of its funniest corollaries is that it shows how hilarious and instructive a star this perennial supporting player can be. See, Judd, he can carry a movie. And he might carry the rest of us not-as-funny-as-we-think-we-are guys along with him. Why, if I Love You, Man is a hit, Paul Rudd could make gauche the new cool...
...Bank stock bulls rest much of their case on the fact the write-offs at financial firms are slowing and the Fed is putting enough money into the credit system to restart the normal cycle of borrowing and lending. That may well be true. Those pushing bank stocks as a great investment would also say that, even though a stock like Citigroup (C) has had a great run, it is down 90% from its 52-week high. That makes it a bargain...
...dirty laundry. The government owned 80% of the company, and Geithner had just orchestrated AIG's most recent handout - its fourth, if you are keeping score, for $30 billion on March 2 - to prevent the teetering insurance giant from going over the cliff and taking the rest of the global financial system with it. AIG had already cost the taxpayers some $170 billion, mostly to repair the damage done by one of its units, AIG Financial Products (AIG FP), which last year alone piled up $40 billion in losses related to its dealings in complex mortgage bond derivatives...
Just as with the rest of us, his great weakness is hope. He's attracted to it and deeply suspicious of it all the same. It's a reason he's been preoccupied lately by the brief heyday of the Soviet avant-garde in the years right after the October Revolution, before Stalin put his very big foot down and imposed the rule of socialist orthodoxy in all artistic realms. A short episode of utopianism that ended in its own flood of blue tears, those years seem to epitomize for him the absurdity and paradox of politics...
According to Menand, he and the rest of the Task Force decided to withdraww from the discussion at that point, since they wanted the Faculty to feel as though the curriculum was theirs...