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...After] a guy shot up the White House with an assault weapon ... the Secret Service said it didn't seem like such a good idea for me to be running on the street every morning. I suppose a few people were hoping I would do just that...
...fondness for plot clichés. Amir (Ebrahimi, far right), a child of privilege in Afghanistan, loves to fly kites with his best friend, Hassan (Mahmoodzada), the son of his father's servant. One day Hassan is raped by a bully and his gang, and Amir, who sees the assault, does nothing to stop it. Indeed, he becomes vindictive toward Hassan, leading to many betrayals and reversals that will be resolved only when the older Amir (Abdalla), now living in the U.S., returns to a homeland ravaged by the Taliban...
...most recent procedural revisions to the Ad Board occurred in 2001, when an independent fact finder was introduced for disciplinary cases, most commonly those involving sexual assault...
...That's something successive governments have attempted repeatedly since the '80s, only to be thwarted by union-led opposition. Sarkozy's determination to storm the one bastion labor has successfully defended from creeping reform reflects his electoral promise to "rupture" with France's musty status quo. By launching that assault just six months into his five-year term, Sarkozy grasps how vital a victory in reforming public-sector pensions is to enabling the rest of his modernization program. "We were elected to transform France," Sarkozy said ahead of the strikes, "and will apply these reforms because they must be applied...
...expected. Housing sales and starts are down sharply, while shares in everything from homebuilders to banks to mortgage insurers have been massacred. Moreover, there's a deepening fear that U.S. consumers - a key driver of global economic growth - might dramatically pare back their spending in the wake of this assault upon their wealth and confidence. In a recent letter to shareholders, legendary U.S. money manager Bill Miller warned: "The difference between what is unfolding now and the Crash of '87, or the problems with Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, is that they were confined to Wall Street, whereas this...