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...your money, not theirs. When Lehman Bros. filed for bankruptcy on Monday, it was careful to spell out that its investment management division - including Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers Asset Management - were not subject to the parent company's bankruptcy filing. Fully paid securities of customers of Neuberger Berman are not subject to the claims of creditors...
...flinty efficiency and a grace of carriage; she sounds wise, looks slim and relatively youthful, dominates the weekend with her personality. She's obsessed with what will happen to her property and belongings but declines to spell it out in her will. Scob, who nearly a half-century ago was the muse of the remarkable director George Franju (Eyes Without a Face, Thérese Desqueyroux, Judex), has an ingrained insight into the character that not only presents Hélene in her 70s but suggests the kind of mother she must have been. There's also a taut sensuality...
...picture. Her shadow, and that of her home, have to linger till the end, when Frédéric's own children spend a last weekend at the chateau, and one of them connects with its gentle spirit. That last scene gives Summer Hours its own haunting spell as well...
...horrors made it inevitable that writers would receive recognition as much for their moralistic projects as their literary merits. In many ways, Solzhenitsyn passed moral muster where his literary betters failed. His was, after all, an age when almost every major intellectual had fallen under the insidious spell of either Stalin or Mussolini, when arcane arch-modernists like Ezra Pound were flirting with fascism and when Sartre would infamously declare, “There is total freedom of criticism in the U.S.S.R.” It is not difficult to understand, then, why an appalled and battered public found inspiration...
...what exact degree physical activity can influence the effect of the FTO gene isn't clear yet, but, says Rampersaud, at least we now know that genes - especially the "wrong" genes - don't necessarily spell out destiny when it comes to weight. And that's a useful lesson to keep in mind when making small daily decisions - taking the stairs instead of the elevator, say, or passing up a dessert. Every little bit can make a difference...