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...Perhaps not, but even the officers admit that their presence is only a short-term fix to an extremely complicated problem - an endemic lack of respect for traditional institutions among a generation of Britons like those loitering on the Craylands Estate. It would be too expensive, not to mention unpleasant, to have police patrolling every square inch of a town like Pitsea. And anyway,what good could they do in the long run, when schools, youth clubs and even families have failed? When the large, hysterical mother of one of the young men stopped by police came running in response...
...problematic, says a City fund manager based at an Asian-owned bank. "It would have removed more uncertainty if the government had just applied the plan to the banks across the board," she says. "Now we have to worry about which banks might need to participate, which managements will admit this, and how damaging it will be to admit needing...
...admit that I’m trading in stereotypes here, and almost certainly oversimplifying the matter. Virginia is, in a sense, a microcosmic battleground for the dreaded and dreary culture wars. I hail from the prosperous, expanding, and relatively liberal northern Virginia suburbs, which have been a huge factor in the Democrats’ optimistic forecasts. In the same way Americans abroad, out of a sense of propriety, claim to be Canadians, I usually tell Cantabridgians that I’m from Washington D.C. I’ve never actually met any Appalachian Virginians, but I’ve always...
Whatever the motivation for her suicide, the actress's death has raised fears about a ripple effect. Korea has had the highest rate of suicide among the world's industrialized countries for the past five years. Policy makers and the general public readily admit that mental illness - even a common disorder like depression - is rarely talked about openly in the country. "Koreans are very secretive about psychiatric problems," says Lee Myung Soo, a psychiatrist at the Seoul Metropolitan Mental Health Centre who agrees that one of the main reasons that people won't talk about it here is fear...
...song of the summer—love it or hate it (and many do), the Billboard Hot 100 has been tasting cherry Chapstick for 20 weeks and counting. Even New York Magazine’s imperious “Vulture” blog had to admit the song’s success, but not without threatening to move to Canada...