Word: standings
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...partnership with producer Alan J. Pakula. Together they made seven films, most of them centered on young people with the will to rebel but not always the means. In Love with the Proper Stranger (1964), Natalie Wood is an Italian Catholic shopgirl who becomes pregnant in the one-night-stand immaculate conceptions familiar in movies of the '60s (and today; see Knocked Up). But since she had the good fortune to be impregnated by McQueen, true love is assured. The plot is Hollywood hokum with a patina of New Yawk grit, but Mulligan was always an ace at revealing...
...event of a bankruptcy-filing down the road, Treasury (i.e., taxpayers) will stand behind senior secured lenders, getting first claim on the automakers' unencumbered assets, those not already pledged to a prior lender. GM says it has such assets - power trains, some foreign operations - and Chrysler says it has assets to secure the loans as well. As with other TARP assists, the government will also receive warrants that (theoretically, at least) could...
...signing a letter asking for competitive elections and openness in China, we are reminded that the country will be sculpted by ideological battles, not philanthropic organizations. Li would be more deserving of the apparent reverence heaped upon him by awestruck Sichuan people if he were to take a real stand and challenge the government for whom he has too often been the smiling glad-hander. In defining the ideal attributes of China's future leaders, TIME's purpose should not be to buff the sheen of uncontroversial celebrities, but celebrate the struggle of real heroes in China. Penny Pong, Hong...
Pelosi spoke after a meeting at Princeton University, where she met with five other House Democrats and prominent American researchers to discuss the future of U.S. innovation. "We stand by [science] as the most important investment we can make in the health, the education, the energy independence, the job creation and the defense of America," the Speaker said. See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Party leaders are launching a TV campaign to make the case that a special election should be called to fill the vacancy, and Blagojevich, clearly in a bargaining mood, has indicated that he might be willing to sign such a bill. "Blagojevich Democrats like Pat Quinn did nothing to stand up to Governor Blagojevich and his ethical lapses," Joe Birkett, the DuPage County state's attorney, told the Chicago Tribune...