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...companies - is at best difficult and at worst foolish. Nonetheless, there were events that were hard to ignore. Insurance contracts tied to the debt of the now defunct Lehman Brothers were finally settled up, and - after much breath-holding - no other firms unraveled. In Washington, black SUVs and town cars of the G-7's central bankers and Treasury officials rolled into town, bringing with them the hope that the people with the power to fix things - assuming there are such people - will collectively figure out a plan. On Friday, some investors even dared to start talking about the possibility...
...Baby Buell is Harley's precocious child--with its down-home, out-of-the-box thinking, Buell serves as a testing ground for new ideas. At its core is a small-town team designing and assembling motorcycles in ways that give every employee ownership and even resonate with customers. And Buell gives Harley entrée into the sport-bike market and access to its insanely loyal fans, who might cross over to a Harley cruiser once they tire of Buell's adrenaline rush...
...with Maher that religion is analogous to a “giant space penis.” This idea stems from a small rural community in England where the citizens diligently maintain a shrubbery-outlined figure of a man with an epic erection on a grassy hillside overlooking the town. Created hundreds of years ago, no doubt by some horny botanist, the presence of this figure remains unquestioned. In “Religulous,” Maher draws an analogy between the mindless devotion of these villagers and the inherently blind nature of religious faith...
...uplifting sports film through and through. “The Express” tells the true story of Ernie Davis (played by Rob Brown), the first black football player to win college football’s most prestigious award, the Heisman Trophy. Davis hailed from Elmira, a small mining town in Pennsylvania—hence his real nickname, “The Elmira Express”—and followed in the footsteps of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown at Syracuse. Davis not only won the Heisman in 1961; he also led Syracuse to its only national championship...
...Obama began his response with a simple declarative sentence: "I believe that health care is a right for every American." The rest of his answer could be used as a template for how to deal with a complex issue in a town-hall debate. He began with a personal story: his mother, dying of cancer at age 53, having to fight her insurance company, trying to prove that her disease had not been a pre-existing condition. He broadened that into a general proposition about the proper role of government: "It is absolutely true that I think it is important...