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What would you say has been your favorite character to play thus far? -Prabhjot Sidhu, Mississauga, Ont. I had the time of my life playing Don (the Goods) Ready. I really did. We experimented so much, and I was doing things where I just thought, This will never be in the movie - there's no way. And then not only did it end up in the movie, but it ended up really working...
...Though the occasional nut job is taking JetBlue for a joyride, the airline's promotion will probably pay off. The company isn't disclosing the financial performance of the pass, except to say that demand has exceeded expectations, to the point that JetBlue shortened the deadline that flyers could purchase the pass by from Aug. 21 to Aug. 19. Industry analysts expect healthy results. "It should generate a fair amount of revenue," says airline consultant Robert Mann, "and lots of goodwill for JetBlue." (See 50 essential travel tips...
...Swiss government, which yesterday put its 332.2 million UBS shares, valued at $5.6 billion, up for sale - a sign, market analysts say, that the government's trust in the bank's ability to raise capital has been restored - also expressed its satisfaction with the settlement. "We have managed to avoid a conflict between the sovereignty of two states," Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told the press, while Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz urged the country's banks to respect the law. "It's the least they can do," he said...
...long-term effects of the agreement on the Swiss banking industry, however, are difficult to predict, experts say. "The settlement is a success for Switzerland and its financial center because it takes away a lot of pressure," says Teodoro Cocca, a former professor of wealth and asset management at the Swiss Finance Institute in Zurich. "But what is disturbing is that it contains elements of a 'fishing expedition,' and potentially other Swiss banks that have U.S. clients could be put under similar pressure." (See the top 10 tax dodgers...
...That’s not to say that nobody’s getting anybody. Quite the contrary. Walk around Cambridge on a Friday night and you’ll bear witness to the raw, carnal savagery of America’s future presidents and CEOs. Toes curl inside leather loafers. Expensive accessories disappear beneath Harvard’s extra-long twin beds. And pastel polo t-shirts lose their former crispness as young scholars embrace. If only these neo-Georgian dorm-room walls could talk...