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...Which makes Diesel - a great stage name (his real one is Mark Vincent) for an actor who seems motor-driven - ideal as the headliner of special-effects action films like this weekend's Fast & Furious, the fourth in a series that launched in 2001 and has now been stripped of its definite articles because, in Hollywood, thes are for wimps. In a car-demolition picture like F&F, the real work in the driving and fighting and jumping scenes is done by stuntmen and computer nerds, but the stories require a stoic male presence, and that, Diesel provides...
...biggest bad surprise for investors in bank stocks, though, could come from pools of so-called shadow assets that have been following around these banks for years. In the earlier part of this decade, banks set up a number of financing arrangements called special investment vehicles or variable interest entities. These arrangements each had different functions, but they were generally known as special purpose entities and they had the effect of keeping certain loans off bank ledgers...
...start recording losses from these loans that investors weren't expecting. There's a second problem related to shadow assets: Regulators say that banks must hold capital equal to at least 5% of their assets to be considered healthy. Citigroup, to take one example, has about $850 billion in special purpose entities. That means to reincorporate those assets by the end of this year, Citigroup will have to come up with $42 billion in new capital - money that will have to come from Uncle Sam, which could further dilute the value of Citi's shares...
...Philosophy and Literature major,” Niisato said through a translator during an interview. “I joined a ceramic art club as a hobby but found that my passion was too strong to resist and left school at the age of 21 to attend a special training school. I graduated in 2001 and have been creating my own work ever since.”Each of Niisato’s works is extremely unique, both in their shapes and the patterns imprinted on each one. During the presentation, Niisato demonstrated his approach. He first thinned...
...OSAPR Director Sarah A. Rankin says. “We got an enormous response, which was really impressive.” The editors of “Saturday Night” culled quotations from 20 pages of reactions, which they included in a special section of the edition.The “Saturday Night” project, which originated at Duke University in 2003, was founded by Neagheen Homaifar ’10 at Harvard three years later. As a freshman with an older sister at Duke who worked on “Saturday Night,” Homaifar was already...