| Buck & New Dawg: Bring on the Giants for Round 3
Big Bill gets all indignant whenever someone leaves his team and tries to raid it. Of course, he�ll do the same, and as much as he can. What is Vinny Testaverde�s place in history (21 straight seasons with a touchdown pass and no Super Bowl appearances)? NEW DAWG: Why don�t we mention the fact that Testaverde has gone 21 straight seasons with a pick? He�s fourth all-time on the NFL list for interceptions thrown and second all-time for picks in a single season. It�s amazing he played for Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick, each two different times, in his career and never played on one of their five combined Super Bowl teams. BUCK: I�ll remember Vinny Testaverde as a guy who had both bad luck and impeccable timing. (He came to a Cowboys team that had Quincy Carter at quarterback, didn�t he?) Vinny was a Heisman Trophy winner/No.
Where have you gone, George Bailey?
ANOTHER HOLIDAY season has come and gone with more reruns of Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." We could sure use banker George Bailey now that the mortgage mess threatens to do what the rapacious Mr. Potter, the town's richest citizen, could not: end the "nonsense" of providing mortgages for the working poor. For some time to come, people in the real world of 21st-century America without a good deal of money in the bank and super-secure jobs will find it difficult to qualify for mortgage loans. George Bailey isn't coming to the rescue. If you are a borrower, you may send your monthly payment to Bailey's bank, but Bailey is long since out of the picture. Shortly after originating your loan, Bailey sold it to a consolidator, very likely a government-sponsored agency such as Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac that packages individual mortgages into a mortgage-backed security.
Internet China Bans American Movie Sales; MPAA’s Glickman Responds
China is blocking the import of American films, said MPAA CEO and Chairman Dan Glickman in an official statement released last week. "Although we have not received official confirmation of such a ban from the Chinese Government or China Film, the indicators are strong that our information is correct," read the statement. "If such action has been taken … it would represent an enormous step backwards in terms of China's efforts to develop a strong … and legitimate film exhibition and distribution market." In a move that some suspect is retaliation for a recent U.S.-filed WTO complaint over China's alarmingly high piracy rate, the Chinese government appears to have stopped granting import requests to American filmmakers -- of which it normally allows for about 20 movies per year.
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