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...hear it in his voice when he says it, 'Toot,'" says Alice Dewey, a University of Hawaii professor emeritus of anthropology, who is a family friend and was the graduate studies advisor to Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham. "They are very close. [His grandmother] has always been a small, slight woman, but tough. She held his nose to the grindstone, but also lavished him with love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Hawaii Trip: Family Comes First | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

...because banks have a severe agency problem. ... When I trade I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line. He has an agency problem, and like [former Merrill Lynch CEO] Stanley O'Neal, if you follow the strategy you're going to make $160 million, and keep it, even if you blow up. And you'll do it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...governmental action - keeps coming. There is a massive uncertainty in the air, and in a market it is perfectly logical - perhaps even necessary - for uncertainty to be reflected in asset prices. Uncertainty, as reflected in volatility, is legitimate information, too. In a panel discussion about volatility's implications, Morgan Stanley executive director Robert Shapiro took a step back and asked: "Why is volatility inherently bad?" Maybe it's not. But it is kind of ugly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Up (Barely) with the Market's Wild Volatility | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...enjoyed it a lot,” said Richard C. Stanley ’12. “I’d heard of Wilcove before and knew about his work, so it was really cool to hear him speak...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Princeton Professor Warns of Cultivation Threat | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...enough star power, Sean Penn appears as the star of the movie within the movie. He’s joined by Catherine Keener as a ball-busting executive, Robin Wright Penn as Ben’s second wife, John Turturro as Willis’s agent, and Stanley Tucci as a writer trying to make a deal with Ben while seducing Ben’s ex-wife. Excluding De Niro, the rest of the star-studded cast is barely ever seen. Sean Penn is a major disappointment and only appears on screen for five minutes—which is just...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Just Happened? | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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