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...your movies, which was your favorite character to play? -Alex Saenz, Tipton, IowaBrick Tamland [from Anchorman] was pretty fun. I just laughed until I cried every day on that movie. And I didn't have to do very much. I just kind of stood there in the background, and Adam McKay, who directed Anchorman, would instruct me to just say whatever I wanted to say, to find an opening and say something-usually a non sequitur of some sort. It could not have been more fun. To play a person who was completely disconnected with reality was just a good...
Poverty makes people desperate. We got a glimpse of that when we watched a family boost their 10-year-old boy over a 12-ft fence, where a slip could easily mean a broken leg, miles from the nearest doctor. Or when we stood at the rusty steel barrier between the U.S. town of Calexico and the Mexican city of Mexicali in California's Imperial Valley. Through a gap in this wall flows the New River, perhaps the most polluted waterway in North America--a foamy, green mix of industrial waste, farm runoff and untreated human sewage. This river...
Last October, I stood in the back of a packed Manhattan ballroom listening to hedge-fund manager David Einhorn explain to an audience what had gone wrong with Wall Street. Packaging home loans into securities was a "mediocre idea," he said. Repackaging those securities into yet other securities was a downright bad one. Credit ratings were a joke. Investment banks--he mentioned Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros. by name--took too many risks and disclosed too little...
...really don't know what to do about fraud when they discover it in progress." Einhorn's Greenlight Capital manages $6 billion, most of it invested in stocks that Einhorn actually likes. But Greenlight also makes money short-selling the stocks he doesn't like. Six years ago, Einhorn stood up at a charity event and recommended shorting Allied Capital, a finance company that he was convinced was understating its loan losses. The company vehemently disagreed, igniting a long war that is the main subject of his book. But as Einhorn recounts in a tone of aggrieved righteousness...
...lifelong Republican who recently turned independent. Early in the primaries, I stood in the rain for two hours, waiting to hear Michelle Obama speak. She is Barack's match in every way: brilliant, articulate, patriotic, humorous and dedicated to helping make our country's future better. She received standing ovations again and again as she expressed her clear vision that our nation is in trouble and dramatic changes in policy are our best hope. Iona Kargel, TUCSON, ARIZ...