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...expensive: healthier parts of the economy and eager entrepreneurs get starved for loans. Until 1998, Tokyo couldn't even admit how bad its banks' balance sheets were: it had no money in its deposit insurance fund. (Filling that up cost $142 billion in 1998.) Within three years, it had sunk $600 billion in a recapitalization plan that was too little, too late...
...West’s scholarship may not be up to the level it is, is an assumption, especially when we haven’t even read it. Think of Lani Gunier. When she was supposed to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Bill Clinton and those that sunk her nomination in Congress never read her stuff. There is an assumption, perhaps, that black excellence is exceptional or somehow out of place or outside the norm. There is that notion that black excellence is not supposed to be too widespread. I think that when we position people like Cornel...
...interest in the company is partly defensive. Hutchison Whampoa has already sunk $400 million in Global Crossing through a convertible-bond holding, which Li could lose in the bankruptcy. Hutchison Whampoa assumed the bond when it took a stake in Asia Global Crossing, a regional subsidiary of Global Crossing...
...someone whose career has supposedly sunk to the bottom of the pop culture septic tank, Mariah Carey isn’t doing too badly. Sure, she got very publicly dropped from an extremely lucrative record deal signed just last April, and she’s still probably recovering from the “exhaustion” which put her in the hospital last summer. Her most recent album, released on Sept. 11, sold just 478,000 copies and cost her record company $10 million. And if that weren’t bad enough, A Walk to Remember, the highly forgettable...
...hoping to come in here and pop one or two goals,” Ryan said. “But to get a hat trick [at the Beanpot] is something that I thought about as a kid. It hasn’t sunk...