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...have that talent, and so does Crispin Glover, although he doesn't seem capable of swinging into normalcy. It's too early to tell what Redmayne's (The Good Shepherd, The Other Boleyn Girl) full range is, but he's definitely got the gift of riveting strangeness. You start out thinking his Gordy is the village idiot; then, as this ghostly pale, freckled redhead goes on and on about being Native American, you decide he's a fabulist. Watching him furtively stuff crayfish in his mouth, you add compulsive to the list...
...government backing as much as $300 billion in troubled Citi loans. But the deal did nothing to repurchase the 7.7 billions shares the government had acquired in Citi in mid-2009. The Treasury considers its remaining stake in Citi part of the Capital Purchase Program initiated at the start of the financial crisis. But because the government owns common stock and not preferred, the Citi deal is unlike any of the hundreds the Treasury has struck with other banks that have participated in the program. Nonetheless, on Dec. 23, Feinberg issued Citi a letter saying the bank would no longer...
...restaurant on Sunday, and I listened to what she had prepared. "I'd like to thank the Academy for making history tonight. I'm the first woman ..." This would be a good way to start the speech if this were 1976, and she had been elected President of the United States. Then Anna went on to thank the director, the studio and some other people I cared about only slightly more than sound mixers...
...keep corrupt officials from siphoning off the funds, and because much of the region has been off-limits to aid workers due to militancy, only a tenth of that amount has been spent. Nor can aid wait: the U.N. reckons that over 1.63 million people fled when bullets started flying between the Pakistani Taliban and the army. Their lives need to be rebuilt before they too start blaming Islamabad, and not the militants, for their misery...
...global policy-research center, is to ring in political and social reforms that will rid this territory of its antique system from British colonial rule and draw it into mainstream Pakistani life. For now, bringing back the music in the bazaars may not be enough, but it's a start...