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This breakdown in global security has been accompanied by an even more dramatic reversal of global economic fortunes. In early 2000, the dot-com bubble burst. More significantly, the rise in asset values that supported much global prosperity turned out to be an illusion largely fueled by easy credit; when the bubble burst, highly leveraged speculative positions reversed gear, and the international financial system came uncomfortably close to crashing. Even more troubling, the ongoing Greek debt crisis has suggested that weaknesses in sovereign debt may trigger another, even more profound global financial meltdown...
...Task Force report was “diagnostic,” the Implementation Group, which meets at least two times a month, is focusing on the logistics of “com[ing] up with a set of solutions,” Lamberth said...
Actually, we don't yet know who won the battle of Greek-myth fighting and rom-com fun. 20th Century Fox posted a weekend total for Date Night of $27.1 million at the North American box office, while Warner Bros. said that Clash of the Titans had earned $26,875,000. That's a difference of just $225,000, or less than 1%. The final, actual grosses will come out on Monday afternoon...
...result was a candygram filled with high fructose corn syrup and reviled by reviewers; the movie rated an abysmal 15% on the Rotten Tomatoes poll of critics. To Jim Slotek of Jam! Movies it was "a rom-com monstrosity"; Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum dubbed it "Crap, Actually"; and virtually every other reviewer approached Valentine's Day as if it were VD. But look: if audiences followed critics, the weekend's top movie (100% on Rotten Tomatoes) would have been American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein. Marshall can trash-compact those notices and frame his royalty checks. The film...
...enough to make her want to chuck her job. She soon finds one, when she takes a two-day break from the big exhibition she's preparing and goes to Rome for her sister's wedding. There she meets the groom's best friend Nick (Josh Duhamel). In rom-com terms there's something wrong with him - in that there's "nothing" wrong with him. He doesn't hate her from the start; he's not mismatched with Beth in class or temperament. In fact, he's an even more fabulous specimen than she is: tall, handsome, genial, with sensational...