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...players are uniformly good, but a special word must be said for Fiennes, whose portrayal of physical awkwardness and painful taciturnity never begs either for laughs or for sympathy. He is, to borrow the title of a touchstone modernist novel, a man without qualities, a creature who might fall over were he not propped up by the invisible scaffolding of tradition, manners and his aristocrat's utterly unexamined sense of perfect entitlement. He doesn't have to think because no one has ever asked him to, and sometimes you see in this performance a dim, sad restlessness, a desire...
...blithely assigned top-drawer AAA and AA ratings to all sorts of hinky mortgage securities and other financial esoterica without understanding the risks involved. Would you know how to rate a collateralized loan obligation? Or commercial-mortgage-backed securities? Sophisticated investors took Moody's and S&P's word for it, and it turned out that the agencies didn't know what they were doing. Credit raters, who claim to offer only opinions, are party to Wall Street's cycles too. At the beginning, they're far too lenient with borrowers, who are the ones who pay their rating fees...
...want to invite press, spread the word, and inspire people,” Palmer said. “The technology is here, the change must happen with people...
...actually wants to rule Thailand is less clear. In spite of the fact that the group uses the word "democracy" in its name, the PAD backs a political system in which an elected parliament could be replaced by one that is partly appointed. Some PAD leaders have advocated what they call a "People's Revolutionary Government," though there's little consensus among the PAD's disparate factions - which include labor activists, ethnic Chinese businessmen and staunch royalists - as to how such a government should come to power or what it might do on a day-to-day basis...
...Wall Street is hoping that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal will ride to the rescue of America's crumbling banks, here's the word from the Saudi billionaire: Thanks, but no thanks. Having bailed out Citicorp on a couple of occasions - most recently by helping in its recapitalization earlier this year - Al-Waleed says he's not in the market for any more U.S. financial sector assets...