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...whose job would that be? Well, it's your job, U.S. taxpayers! If this seems unfair, that's because it is. Mortgage brokers, investment bankers, house flippers and other sharpies got rich causing this mess. Now all of us have to pay to fix it. The one possible bright side is that, if done right, bailouts don't ultimately have to cost a lot of money. If the government buys assets when everybody's panicked and sells them when markets have calmed down again, it could even turn a profit...
...they have always achieved maximum success when dealing with people on society’s fringes. Their most interesting characters are social misfits like The Dude—the pot-smoking, White Russian-drinking hero of “The Big Lebowski”—rather than rich urbanites like Osbourne and Katie Cox. Joel and Ethan have a lot of love for The Dude, but not so much for the characters in “Burn After Reading”—and it shows. —Staff writer Claire J. Saffitz can be reached...
...Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too,” the singer/songwriter immediately begins her unapologetic expression of a woman’s emotion. Over syncopated drums and her own rhythmic guitar playing, Wainwright’s voice, by no means rich or soothing, is like a mezzo-soprano Lucinda Williams. She achingly describes how “there are days when the cage doesn’t seem to open very wide at all,” referring to her own debilitating obsession with a man that has “love...
...Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.)--about Nick George (Peter Krause), who becomes in-house lawyer to the rich, tabloid-fodder family the Darlings--started fall 2007 sassy and slick but became increasingly earnest and torpid as it went on. The producers decided, astutely, that it needed to return dirtier and sexier, or there would be no mo' money. The return episode is also funnier and dumber, in the best sense: it's the kind of show in which a jilted wife confronts her politician husband with a golf club in the shower over his tranny lover. Its stripped-from-the-tabloids...
...least 30 supporters of President Morales, and possibly a lot more, have been killed over the past week as an opposition campaign to obtain autonomy for the resource-rich eastern regions they control turned violent. The opposition Prefects are demanding greater control over policies ranging from land reform to the allocation of the earnings of Bolivia's natural gas exports, which originate in their regions. Earlier this year, the departments of Tarija, Santa Cruz, Pando and Beni voted overwhelmingly in favor of opposition-drafted autonomy statutes, but since those referenda were not sanctioned by the national electoral court, the central...