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...that the importance of the subject will enhance the inherent modesty of their own gifts. But this is not so; we emerge from their movies frustrated by their failures to grasp and shake our souls. I would like to propose a cinematic moratorium on this subject: a thoughtful silence, rich in remembrance, but lacking in the desire to leap forth a couple of times a year with slack, distant, by-the-numbers products like Good...
Today, Cerberus is backing out of those arrangements, ceding some control of its Detroit institutions in return for rich infusions of government aid. The first infusion came on December 19th when President Bush announced that Chrysler, along with GM, would receive $13.4 billion of emergency loans from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) after Congress had refused to pass a separate bailout bill. On Christmas Eve Cerberus got another last-minute gift when the Federal Reserve Board voted to permit GMAC to change its status to a bank holding company. (GM still owns 49% of GMAC). (See pictures...
...military vehicles rolled through the capital of your country during the chaotic days following the president's death, and soldiers brandished weapons and declared themselves the new government, you might assume there would be widespread panic. But if you live in the mineral-rich West African nation of Guinea, that assumption would be wrong...
...first multi-millionaire, penned the diary while he was studying classics at Cambridge in the 1840s. Now, for the first time in more than a century, his work is being republished in An American In Victorian Cambridge: Charles Astor Bristed's "Five Years in An English University." His rich account of Cambridge's devil-may-care student life is part memoir, part instructional guide: it offers tips on navigating the city's twisting streets and preparing for the university's notoriously difficult exams, while also divulging how students weaseled their way out of them. (See TIME...
...almost a cliché in the Windy City to say that even prosecutors, should they run afoul of the law, would tap Genson to defend them. The son of a bail bondsman and a model-train enthusiast, he's become a rich man by being one of the go-to guys for people caught up in dire legal circumstances...