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...several years before, got involved in a lawsuit with her brother Henri (Mathieu Amalric, star of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and the lead villain in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace). She has effectively banished him from the family circle, which makes him the wild card - and plot fulcrum - when he turns up for the holidays...
...affect just one bank," says Andrew Lo, a finance professor at MIT who applies ideas from psychology and evolutionary biology to investment. "It can easily spread to the entire banking industry. What we're seeing now [in hedge funds] is a bank run, but a bank run gone wild. It's a bank run on steroids because the losses are so great...
...intersection of two public yearnings: for freedom and for order. A century ago, in the Progressive Era, modern American liberalism was born, in historian Robert Wiebe's words, as a "search for order." America's giant industrial monopolies, the progressives believed, were turning capitalism into a jungle, a wild and lawless place where only the strong and savage survived. By the time Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression, the entire ecosystem appeared to be in a death spiral, with Americans crying out for government to take control. F.D.R. did - juicing the economy with unprecedented amounts of government cash, creating...
...Mbeki failed as an objective mediator, but he also provides a poor example of leadership himself. The Harvard School of Public Health recently found that Mbeki’s decision to reject HIV drugs as unsafe nine years ago cost 330,000 lives. And, in 2001, he made wild accusations against three leaders of his own political party—who were later defended by Nelson Mandela—that they were plotting his ouster. A man with such partiality and dangerously fickle leadership could never be a legitimate mediator...
...five feet tall and deformities in her spinal and pelvic bones give the impression that she may have walked with a limp, or dragged her feet. The presence of the hollowed-out tortoise shells, combined with intact bone pieces of leopards and other creatures - the complete forearm of a wild boar, for example, was placed under the woman's own arm - suggest that those living around her believed she had some sort of animist power...