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TIME: Tell me about your book. Why did you decide to write it? CHONG: Everything that happens to me is very cosmic. And this book became very cosmic for a lot of reasons, you know. Because Cheech and Chong, we were way more than just a comedy team. We really were the Mum & Dad of the counterculture. Cheech and Chong, we were the ones who took it into your homes, into your head through the albums. And now that Mum and Dad are back together again, everybody's happy. Cheech really feels strongly that we could go down in history...
...waiter is talking to you. If you get bad service, you should still leave a tip. It's not only for the waiter. When you stiff the waiter, you also punish people who may have had nothing to do with your having a bad experience. Instead, I would write a letter - a real letter, not an e-mail - to the manager. When they see that, they're going to make amends with some kind of gift certificate or something...
...billion loss in the first half of this year - a massive drop from the $9.6 billion profit it recorded in the first six months of 2007, and the bank's first ever loss as a publicly traded company. Behind the change of fortune: some $11.3 billion of its own write-downs on assets linked to the collapsed sub-prime market. RBS CEO Fred Goodwin said he was both "numbed ... and galvanized" by the loss. "It's my determination," he said, "to get us out of this place...
...Barclays added $5.4 billion to the enormous sums British lenders have written off amid the credit crisis; London-based HSBC, Europe's largest bank, made a similar contribution a few days earlier. For banks across Europe, as for their U.S. counterparts, 2008 is proving painfully difficult. Globally, banks could write down as much as $450 billion more over the next three to four years, according to research from Deutsche Bank. Lenders, it says, are short of funds equivalent to 4% of their balance sheets, with those in Ireland, Spain and Britain finding fund-raising particularly tricky. As the U.S. sputtered...
...Joanna Naples-Mitchell '10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Kirkland House. She was going to write her summer postcard about the man who tried to sell her a pirated DVD on the subway, but then she watched Ashcroft testify a few weeks ago and changed her mind...