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...they record a loss. Some do it after a borrower misses his first payment. Other banks wait until the loan is 120 days past due. But for loans made through a firm's investment-banking division, the bank has to reduce the value of those debts according to what similar pools of loans are worth. This is known as mark-to-market accounting. And when investors grow increasingly nervous that borrowers will not pay back their debts, as they are now, the bonds on which those loans are based plummet in value, even before payments stop coming...
...more engaging than it was with the old-fashioned red-cyan anaglyph cardboard glasses of the 1950s and '60s. That said, the Super Bowl commercial (as well as Monday night's episode of the NBC sitcom Chuck) is designed for TV broadcast and requires a setup that's similar to anaglyph - a newer, higher-quality version called ColorCode. "It doesn't bleed colors out the way the old anaglyph glasses did," says Katzenberg. "But consider this a warm-up for the movie-theater experience, which, honestly, is 100 times higher quality than you could see on TV. This is like...
...federal research funding by far. The legislation would also give an additional $3 billion to the National Science Foundation, another key financial backer. The increases are part of a broader $819 billion economic stimulus package passed by the House. The Senate is set to consider a similar version of that legislation next week. Harvard chief lobbyist Kevin Casey said it is likely that the bill will pass “in the near future.” Democrats are hoping to ready a final version of the bill for President Barack Obama’s approval by the second week...
...past two weeks another similar case has emerged, after Brazil blocked the extradition to Italy of leftist Cesare Battisti, convicted of four murders in the 1980s. Battisti had also long taken refuge in France, where he became a successful author of mystery novels, and a cause celebre among Parisian leftist intellectuals. He was arrested in 2007 by French police, but managed to flee to Brazil. Italian media reports last week claimed that during the French First Couple's recent trip to Rio de Janeiro, Bruni had lobbied Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to block the extradition...
...stimulus plan. But it will be his last for a while. By June, there will be grousing that Obama hasn't pulled us out of the recession yet. By December, there will be complaints that his diplomacy hasn't achieved breakthroughs. The President's best-case scenario is similar to Reagan's: that the bad news will begin to dissipate by the midterm elections of 2010, limiting the Democratic losses, and disappear entirely by 2012. Reagan was lucky in that way. Obama is facing more difficult problems and might not be so lucky. But at least, for the moment...