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...In one of the show’s opening images, from Carrie Mae Weems’s “The Rivington Place Portfolio” (2006-7), the artist haunts the British Museum portico in a spectral black dress....
...The Thai border town of Mae Sot is a seething microcosm of spirited resistance, dislocation and despair....
...Jack Treynor, a prominent financial academic in the 1960s, once quipped that “you may not get rich by using all the available information, but you surely will become poor if you don’t”....
...One does get so used to domestic help: apart from the chores and the childcare, Rosa-Mae’s dim sum were to die for....
...“It’s natural to get an uptick in volatility at this point in the tightening cycle because the Fed’s been tightening for over two years,” says Jack McIntyre, fixed income portfolio manager for Brandywine...
...Most interestingly, the court found that the drastic fall in Akorn’s business did, in fact, constitute the dreaded Material Adverse Effect (MAE)....
...Instead of retaining mortgages on its books, the privately owned company sells them on to the government guarantors Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae....
...The move by chief executive John Flannery will undo much of the work of Jack Welch, the famed GE executive who pieced the group together through a string of acquisitions....
...On my most recent trip I visited Jack’s Bar by the Chao Phraya river — a hidden spot frequented by a mix of locals, expats and chefs....
...Endorsements followed from famous names who said they had benefited from the treatment: Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, Jack Lemmon, Cher and others....
...It is also time for the government to end its ownership of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage agencies bailed out during the crisis, he told Fox Business....
...Jack Guttentag was 74 when he started writing a weekly column on mortgages for his website. Eighteen years later, he is still at it and has yet to miss a single week....
...(I hear that on one trip, by chance, Goldie Hawn and Dan Quayle ended up riding alongside each other.)...
...One local estimates the going rate for a bottle of Jack Daniel’s bourbon in Riyadh is about $400. In the capital’s diplomatic quarter, consulates and embassies frequently host “wet” events....
...That group, while “small and declining”, according to Jack Remondi, chief executive, prompted Navient to increase its provisions for losses by about a fifth during the quarter....
...The New York dealer Jack Shainman represents Yiadom-Boakye as well as four other artists in the show, including Kerry James Marshall....
...The Wilmington, Delaware-based company, which was split off from Sallie Mae last year, said that loans among a segment of higher-risk private education borrowers, who returned to school during the recession...
...(FT) UK ex-ministers in China payments sting Two former British foreign secretaries, Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind, have been caught in an undercover sting offering to help a fictitious Chinese company...
...It was the kind of sweltering night when even Jack White must have wondered if his carefully chosen outfit could be junked for shorts and a T-shirt. Of course he did nothing of the sort....
...This brings me to America’s other harmful, needless political attack: Treasury secretary Jack Lew’s battle against corporate inversions....
...Watson Jason Wu: Kerry Washington Best Gets – Male (this is where the numbers really get interesting) Dolce & Gabbana: surprise winner with best actor Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Jonah Hill, Jack...
..., the chief economist of Fannie Mae has warned....
...When leaders of the Senate Banking Committee released a plan on Tuesday that would eventually eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, common shares in the US mortgage finance companies that needed a $188bn...
...There were also some temporary factors, such as large dividends from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...Other Democrats who are more senior than Mr Brown on the committee, such as Jack Reed of Rhode Island, are expected to pursue other leadership roles....
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