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...main consistency is that Redmayne grips as much as he repels. You want to grab his chin - Gordy is always in some sort of awkward motion - and hold him still so you can look into those clear, clean eyes of his and figure him out. Prasad directs to this unnerving fluidity; in the first scene in which we get a real sense of Gordy's character, he and Martine are talking in the backseat of the convertible as it whips along the highway and the wind tears the words out of their mouths. It seems Gordy needs the world...
...scoff - Martine is such a sketch of the bad girl in need - but Hurt and Redmayne sold me on the notion. As for the yellow handkerchief of the title, I'd have dismissed it as a cheesy device if it weren't for the fact that I'm still cherishing the eloquence of Hurt's silent marvel when he finally sees it, fluttering across the gray Southern...
...time when every one of its main rivals has repaid its obligations to Uncle Sam, Citi still has its hands deep in the government-aid cookie jar. Uncle Sam owns more of Citigroup than any other bank. Currently, the government holds 7.7 billion shares of Citi's stock - a stake the government got last year by converting a portion of its Citi preferred shares. That makes Uncle Sam the bank's largest shareholder, with about 27% of Citi's outstanding shares, valued at some $26 billion. That's about seven times the $3.5 billion the government has lent SunTrust Bank...
...Still, Herzberg's Sirius Value program is far from a slam-dunk fix for the housing slump. Under the program, which received a provisional patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month, the developer or homebuilder must give 20% of the purchase price to Herzberg's group as a fee for the put option - a payment that many developers may be reluctant to cough up. "20% is astronomically high!," says one analyst, who did not wish to be named. "What builder would give away 20% when they're doing 5% or 10% [pretax] margins? If they gave away...
...person is out of luck - the put option becomes worthless. However, homeowners do have the option of opting out of the program in the first six years in exchange for handsome cash bonuses, ranging from 10% of the purchase price in year one to 3% in year six. Still, some analysts feel homeowners should be permitted to exercise the put - i.e., sell back the house at its original price - after three or four years. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...