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...late '60s, Lewis's film popularity waned. In his 40s, he had not found a maturer version of the crazy kid audiences had once loved. The low point came in 1972, when he starred in and directed The Day the Clown Cried, a sort of Bozo at Auschwitz drama that was never released and remains a very tantalizing lost film. Comedian Harry Shearer - whose report on the 1976 Telethon is one of the finest pieces written on Lewis, and who may have seen the movie - described it as "the Holocaust on black velvet." In what must be another painful twist...
...loans made to borrowers with bad credit who couldn't really handle them. The thing is, subprime isn't the entire story. In fact, looking forward, it's not even the biggest problem. While the raw percentage of subprime loans in delinquency and foreclosure still far outstrips any other sort of mortgage, the types of loans that are now going downhill the fastest are ones that were generally sold to more credit-worthy borrowers. (See the top 10 buzzwords...
...Secretary of State, Clinton is avoiding that sort of provocation. During her three-day visit to Beijing, she plans to visit a church Sunday morning and meet with female NGO and civil society leaders at the U.S. embassy later in the day, seemingly choosing subtle example over fiery talk. The "efforts of civil society, women's groups, NGOs, academic institutions" are at least as important as discussions between governments in promoting human rights, Clinton said. Some human rights groups expressed disappointment at Clinton's approach to the issue in China...
...brought along Todd Stern, the State Department's new special envoy on climate change, and will visit a high-tech, low-emissions power plant built with GE technology outside the Chinese capital to emphasize the potential for U.S.-China cooperation on greening industry. But experts don't expect any sort of quick agreement between the world's two largest polluters. "This is just the initial step to start talking about the issue," says Yan. "During the Bush administration China and the U.S. cooperated with each other pretty well: they cooperated to ignore climate change. Now they are looking to cooperate...
...contribution to patient education,” said McMahon, an endocrinologist. But only time will tell how Medpedia will impact the practice of medicine, according to Ishir Bhan ’96, an instructor in medicine at HMS. “We haven’t really had this sort of thing in medicine,” Bhan said. “If it’s active enough, you could have the benefit of experts without having...