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...many believe that the speculation is unwarranted. "This bill doesn't materially change the products or activities that banks are interested in getting into," says George Bicher, bank analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown (speaking of mergers). As a practical matter, Bicher notes, Glass-Steagall lost its teeth long ago. Exploiting loopholes and a remarkably tolerant Fed, banks and insurers and brokerages have been invading one another's turf for two decades. Still, some new combinations are inevitable. Says David Stumpf, senior bank analyst at A.G. Edwards: "We will see some consolidation among banks and insurance companies, with banks doing...
Glass-Steagall lost all its teeth this decade, starting in 1990 with a Fed decision allowing J.P. Morgan to begin underwriting securities. In 1997, Bankers Trust (now owned by Deutsche Bank) bought the investment bank Alex. Brown and officially married two businesses divided since the Depression. Meanwhile, banks had begun marketing annuities and mutual funds, and brokers had begun offering CDs and loans. Leaders in all corners had come to agree that Glass-Steagall was obsolete. They just couldn't compromise and find a solution...
...ends of each chromosome that help hold our genetic bundles together but fray with age. Researchers may even learn to grow whole new hearts and livers from stem cells, a prospect I find slightly dispiriting. Will we walk off the stage at last elaborately disguised, a living prosthesis--false teeth, false eyes, false taste buds, false everything...
Guitars and drums, loud and fast. In the great textbook of rock and roll, it's the first lesson and Dave Grohl learned it well. Just to get it out of the way early, yes, Grohl cut his teeth in some other big famous Seattle band before the Foo Fighters. Unfortunately, Grohl's celebrated lineage has always seemed to detract from his talents rather than advance them. With the first Foos' album, the world was waiting to see how many Kurt Cobain references they could find in his songs (regardless of the fact that much of the album was written...
...country, probably Russia, who somehow falls in love with a stranger and finds herself in an unnamed American city. Her journey comprises stories of rape and incest, murder and solicitation, placed in a mythical context of forests and magic. A "man in the forest laughing with little pointed teeth" violates her, yet gives her a Faberge egg. This egg becomes the metaphor for Ilana's life and spirituality, though the connection remains weak due to Budnitz's style problems. She writes, "I did not tell her about the egg. I should have flung it away when...