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...Tintin comic strip ran for over half a century, but Hergé maintained that his boy wonder was always just shy of his 18th birthday. Ostensibly a reporter - although he is seen filing a story in only one frame in the entire 24-book oeuvre - Tintin took on various roles as detective, Boy Scout and secret agent. As time went by, he accumulated friends: along with his astute and faithful dog, Snowy, his retinue included cantankerous sailor Captain Haddock; eccentric egghead Professor Calculus; and the doltish, bowler-hatted, doppelgänger detectives, Thomson and Thompson. And his adventures took...
Paul Schulte, a former Lehman Brothers star analyst who is now with Japan's Nomura (which took over bankrupt Lehman's Asian operations), recently compared bank balance sheets in various countries and discovered significant differences. One telling disparity is leverage. The higher the leverage, the greater the risk, and despite efforts to put them on sounder financial footing, U.S. and European banks remain overstretched by historical standards and relative to their peers. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...accordance with a December directive from Smith, the former cryptographic researcher emerged from the frenzy of the financial uncertainty as the “point person,” the man tasked with setting fiscal policies to close a gaping deficit. Sweet—who often flanks Smith in various meetings with FAS administrative deans—knows the numbers well enough to tell units how particular proposals for budget cuts will save, or perhaps even cost money...
...courthouse where they practically want you to undress to be approved for official gender reassignment," he said. "But on Facebook, I could do it myself and under my own terms. I made that announcement in my own town square." Andy says that the name change sparked questions from various friends, but he expected to have those conversations and was happy to take care of it all at once...
Good: Adding large numbers of LGBT-ish entities to your fan list. Rachel Maddow, female golfers, Harvey Milk, various Calvin Klein models and almost anything related to Gossip Girl will do. Not so good: Fan-listing gay porn stars...