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...this point we've already been given several pleasantly familiar Brownian treats. Langdon has already flashed us his trademark Mickey Mouse watch ("I wear it to remind me to slow down and take life less seriously"), and we've gotten a taste of his freakish memory, his crippling claustrophobia and his rueful skepticism. We've been reminded of Brown's taste for ritual violence - there's a touch of Thomas Harris about his writing. We've even been introduced to a lonely, violent fanatic with weird skin. His name is Mal'akh instead of Silas, and instead of being...
...ve pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps and we feel very good about that," the Ford chairman added. "There are always competitive issues, but I like the fact that we are the master of our own destiny, and I like the fact that our products are getting rave reviews. I wouldn't trade places with either [GM or Chrysler]." (Read "A Brief History of the Model...
...cost was a bailout that placed trillions of taxpayer dollars at risk. It was expensive, it was messy, it was unfair. It struck many people as downright un-American. But it worked. "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," is how President George W. Bush described it last December...
Mission accomplished - so far, at least. In the face of a financial shock worse than the Crash of 1929, massive government intervention averted a second Great Depression. Yes, we've still ended up in the worst economic downturn the U.S. has seen since. But while there are surely lots of potholes and wrong turns ahead, there's ample evidence that the economy - both in the U.S. and worldwide - is in the early stages of a rebound. And we have decisions made by government officials to thank for that...
Budget cuts have swept through campus faster than news of a party during Freshman Week. But apparently the administration didn’t make it to the end of “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” because they’ve still done a lot of spending on stuff nobody really needs or cares about. FM presents some of the areas where Harvard is still losing money like a trip to the COOP. 15) The Polynesian dancers at the recent Aloha Harvard event. Although apparently we didn’t pay them enough to do the hula...