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...becoming clear to me already that somehow this guy, even in my house, really is a movie star. Maybe the only one we have now. There are plenty of huge box-office draws (Will Smith, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Johnny Depp) and even more famous celebrities (Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Lindsay Lohan), but no one besides Clooney is so gracefully both. After an actor achieves media saturation, there's actually an inverse relation between fame and box-office receipts: people aren't going to pay for what they can get for free...
...taught by Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations professor Ali S. Asani; Foreign Cultures 70: “Islam,” also taught by Asani; and a new course called “Poetry Without Borders,” to be taught by Slavic Languages and Literatures professor Stephanie Sandler...
...investment bank advising the government on its handling of the company, didn't disagree. And in a bid to return Northern Rock to the private sector as swiftly as possible - and to pay back those loans - the Treasury has made what most observers see as a credible choice: Ron Sandler, who rescued a struggling Lloyd's of London insurance market in the '90s. Sandler began meetings with the bank's management and union representatives Monday...
There'll be a lot more developments to follow. It'll be years before Northern Rock can think about returning to the private sector. And though it'll be managed by Sandler "at arms length," as Brown insisted to reporters Monday, the potential for further government embarrassment remains high. Shareholders of Northern Rock - unlikely to get much in return for their investment - are threatening legal action. Robin Ashby, founder of the Northern Rock Small Shareholders' Group, said the bank had been "stolen away from them." Worse still, the dirty business of trimming the bank's 6,000 strong staff - something...
...down in Spanish class this week and my teacher passed around the room a newspaper clipping about “Spanglish.” The article discussed not the Adam Sandler movie, but rather the phenomenon—or, as some would say, “problem”—of English’s pervasiveness in Spain. It’s true, English phrases are ubiquitous here. When young people here mean “blue jeans,” they say “blujin” instead of “pantalones azules...