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...Gide novel, in 1946; the following decade, his precise dramas became the butt of young turks like Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard who formed France's New Wave. Back when the international audience got much of its fun, sex and sentiment from Italian movies, Dino Risi, 91, provided robust entertainment in many genres. Among his 80-some features were 17 starring Vittorio Gassman, most prominently the cynical social fable Il Sorpasso / The Easy Life and the blind-officer-on-a-toot drama Profuma di Donna / Scent of a Woman, remade in Hollywood with Al Pacino. Risi's string of affairs...
...Clinton's Joycelyn Elders got into hot water for advocating the teaching of masturbation, while George W. Bush's Richard H. Carmona admitted to getting a gag order from the White House on anything that didn't match the Administration's politics. Gupta, who enters politics with an already robust fan base, will most likely not suffer the same fate. (See Sanjay Gupta's article "Why I Would Vote...
...stage for a major legislative push for immigration reform in 2010, an effort that is supported by unions and the Department of Homeland Security. In a speech at the liberal Center for American Progress in November, Napolitano argued that the stronger enforcement efforts, combined with a more robust border-protection effort in the past year, set the stage for the passage of reform, which would provide a path to citizenship for many of the 12 million illegal immigrants in America. "Over the past year, as this Administration has pursued more effective strategies within the current laws, the picture...
What's more, the region's housing market remains relatively robust, mainly because post-Katrina demand for suitable housing remains strong and local banks haven't engaged in the sort of risky mortgages that have caused problems elsewhere in the country...
...November, Duygan-Bump, Cohen-Cole and two other colleagues - Jose Fillat and Judit Montoriol-Garriga - put out a paper called "Looking Behind the Aggregates: A Reply to Facts and Myths About the Financial Crisis of 2008.'" In it, they argued that even though overall lending seemed to be robust, that could very well be the result of companies drawing down existing credit lines - agreements banks had made in better times and now couldn't renegotiate. In fact, there was plenty of anecdotal evidence in the business press to suggest that was exactly what was happening, that companies were locking...