Despite COVID-19's Spread, It's Still "Business as Usual" for the Royals
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March 12, 2020
In a town where crowds are the business, nobody knows exactly how to proceed as COVID-19 grows—or, now that several blockbuster films have been delayed, what to do if the disease grinds the entire industry to a halt.
After ignoring warnings and ousting experts, the national-security apparatus is now scrambling to address the pandemic.
Eliza Hittman's spare film about one teenage girl's Odyssean quest to terminate her pregnancy has the genuine potential to change hearts and minds.
Confused about the novel coronavirus? Barbers and fitness boutiques have an email for that.
Stock markets are in free fall but the president isn't worried in the slightest.
Many believe the government-backed mortgage giants known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were major culprits in the economic meltdown. But, for decades, Fannie Mae had been under siege from powerful enemies, who resented its privileged status, its hard-driving CEOs, and its huge profits. Surveying Fannie's deeply dysfunctional relationships with Congress, the White House, and Wall Street, Bethany McLean tells of the long, vicious war—involving most of Washington's top players—that helped propel one of the world's most successful companies off a cliff.
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