Word: whitmans
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...Working with Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts), an assistant D.A. who's been sleuthing the IBBC case from the New York City end, Salinger tries to corral the bank's CEO, Jonas Skarssen (Ulrich Thomsen), a dimpled smoothy who woos rebel chiefs on three continents with arms shipments for their would-be revolutions. Osama bin Laden needn't have buttonholed his Saudi relatives for al-Qaeda cash; he could have gone to Skarssen. As the banker tells an African insurgent, "The real value of a conflict, the true value, is the debt it creates." Hearing the outlines of this conspiracy, today...
...fascinated by loopholes in banking regulations, The International offers some thriller wrinkles. To prod his memory for a sharper image of Schumer's last moments, Salinger sticks his head in a basin of ice. (It works!) There's a pretty cool demonstration of "trajectory analysis," in which Salinger and Whitman determine the angle of an assassin's bullet by poking sticks through a perforated wall, and a Holmesian moment when Salinger, examining the impression a man's shoe has left in some dirt, says, "I've seen that print before...
...genre writer of a sort. I write literary fiction, which is like spy fiction or chick lit. I was hoping to talk to America. Like Walt Whitman, you know? Address it and describe it to itself...
...This is, in fact, a big change. In the Bush Administration, accomplished and independent-minded Cabinet Secretaries like former governors Christine Todd Whitman and Tommy Thompson bristled at marching orders from snot-nosed twentysomething White House apparatchiks. Obama's picks suggest that while his Cabinet Secretaries will take marching orders, the orders will at least come from seasoned heavyweights...
Next Donahoe clamped down on fraud to build trust to keep customers coming back. "In the Meg Whitman days, eBay didn't have any customer service," says Lindsay of Sanford C. Bernstein. "If something went wrong, it was tough luck, buddy." Today if a buyer pays for the transaction through PayPal--a payment company owned by eBay that has seen tremendous growth--the sale is guaranteed for the full price...