Word: appeareance
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...some of its major banks after real estate and stock-market bubbles burst. The government says it currently plans to take a localized approach to intervention to make sure weaknesses it sees chiefly in regional banks don't develop into a systemic infection. Japan's regional banks don't appear to be facing an immediate crisis, say economists, but the government wants to be prepared. "It's a safety net for smaller institutions," says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist at Nomura Securities...
...Gordon Smith of Oregon and Norm Coleman of Minnesota--trail their Democratic challengers in the most recent polls. Mississippi's contest between Republican incumbent Roger Wicker and Democratic former governor Ronnie Musgrove is too close to call. And there are two other states--Virginia and New Mexico--where Democrats appear certain to win seats being vacated by retiring Republicans...
That policy would appear to have the support of Obama--who has said that as President, he would meet "with anyone at the time and place of my choosing"--though not of McCain, who cites Petraeus as an ally every day on the campaign trail but whose running mate, Sarah Palin, has called negotiating with rogue regimes "beyond naive...
...seems to be proving that he is no joke. In his short time as an alumnus, the wunderkind has been frightfully prolific: he is the youngest writer in the history of “Saturday Night Live,” has his work appear regularly in The New Yorker, and has just renewed his contract with Random House after publishing two books with them in the last two years. FM snagged the budding author for fifteen questions...
...more complex with an understanding of the rules of Greek drama that those playwrights emulated—or conspicuously shunned. In Dante or Dryden or Tennyson, one can sense the palpable presence of Vergil. To disembody literature from the larger tradition of which the authors were knowingly partaking would appear an artificial and arbitrary extraction.Most importantly, perhaps, we owe our understanding of philosophy to the Greeks who developed it and the Latins who preserved it for us somewhat intact. The metaphysics and natural science first discoursed upon in Plato’s Academy and Aristotles’s Lyceum laid...