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Reagan had, to be fair, starred with Barbara Stanwyck in the 1954 Cattle Queen of Montana.

Clint on Half Time in America

Werner Herzog on Chickens!

As we have previously argued, stabilizing the housing market will probably require reductions in mortgage principal as well as access to lower interest rates.

Mr. Bernanke has repeatedly called on Congress to adopt a long-term plan for deficit reduction. He said Tuesday that this should be done “as soon as possible.”

Judge Rakoff even posed for a photograph in Vanity Fair, which is featured in the current newsstand issue with a brief write-up on the judge.

Coakley separately sued the same banks in December and accused them of deceptive foreclosure practices, but she has not ruled out joining the multi-state settlement.

"Money-market funds remain susceptible to runs and to a sudden deterioration in quality of holdings, and we need to move forward with some concrete ideas for proposals to address these structural risks."

Youth does bring its challenges.

When VIX is low, it's time to go. When VIX is high, it's time to buy.

"After each book, I felt like I knew less," he told me. "For an academic, that's a pretty frustrating feeling."

“He’s brash and young, and he thinks he knows better than people who have been in business for years. Even if he’s absolutely right, it’s somewhat annoying.”

LIKE MANY FORMER REPUBLICANS: "Mr. Eastwood, a former mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., who usually voted Republican, has acknowledged recently having a political change of heart."

“But for 2012,” Mr. Messina said, “our campaign has to face the reality of the law as it currently stands.”

A “hard landing” for China is a key risk for the global economy, Andrew Colquhoun, the Hong Kong-based head of Asia-Pacific ratings for Fitch Ratings

That, however, doesn't mean investors should dump all their equities. Montgomery recommends a lower-than-normal allocation to stocks and other financial assets and a higher ones to gold and other real assets.

The new restrictions also raised new warnings to financial institutions in other nations that they could face big penalties in the United States if they did business with Iran’s central bank.

Moscow and Beijing now have the blood of Syria’s valiant people on their hands as well.

“The bill of rights of the former evil empire, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was much better than ours.” - Justice Antonin Scalia

Instead of blithely assuming the United States would purchase its oil, Canada is now determined to find diverse buyers so it won’t be held hostage by American politics.

The Cardona brothers, who have no prior history of political giving, appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the world of Democratic fund-raising, Democratic activists said.

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