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...documentary, like any movie trying to hold your attention, needs either a big theme - some tremendous political injustice will do - or a magnetic character that keeps people watching. Tyson has character to spare, since its subject and star is the two-time heavyweight champion and three-year guest of the Indiana penal system. In boxing, "the sweet science," he was the Frankenstein monster...
...test is no test when the conclusions are open to alteration based on the subject of the tests objections. By giving banks time to evaluate their scores, the government is opening a Pandora...
...regulation off the table is with legislation that addresses greenhouse gases. And despite the characterization elsewhere, we are not looking to regulate wildly. I do think that you can regulate in a thoughtful fashion. But I would also be willing to bet that those regulations, when proposed, would be subject to all manner of lawsuits...
Despite the intense nature of some of the footage, Disneynature has cleaned up the material for young children - no actual killing is shown on film - and Earth is rated G. For a nature film, Earth also takes a notably G-rated stance on the subject of the environment. Climate change is mentioned a few times in passing - and we see a male polar bear in northern Norway struggling with melting sea ice - but there is no real message or explanation of it here. Instead of doom, the overall mood is joy, the renewal that comes with rain...
...policymakers and rating agencies—about how to better design the process of rating securities and minimize conflicts of interest. “The status quo isn’t good enough,” said SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro at a roundtable discussion on the subject last week. While some problems with rating agencies are indeed structural, there are more basic issues of risk-taking behavior at stake that cannot be changed simply through regulation, cooperation, or incentives...