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...being installed. And work on the structure that will eventually support its roof is underway. But the progress masks concerns that the economic crisis will hit the world's biggest sporting event. As one member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) remarked on a recent visit to London, Britain's capital faces "the toughest time - short of wartime - to get the project...
...question: when, year after year, more and more British filmmakers, actors and actresses are winning awards alongside their Hollywood counterparts, is there any need for an Outstanding British Film category at all? How come all British films are equal, but some British films are more equal than others? Yes, Britain's film industry is much smaller and poorer than America's, and, true, there's the risk that, in some years, U.S. award winners will swallow the Brits whole. But, these days, who's to say which films should be relegated to the British film category and which films...
...while Britain and the Netherlands have troops on the frontline, other allies insist that reconstruction is as important as combat and refuse to redeploy. Speaking yesterday in Munich, British Defense Secretary John Hutton scolded his NATO allies for not stepping forward to share combat duties, warning that there could be no freeloaders in the fight against the insurgents. "It is better to volunteer than to be asked," he said, denouncing the European habit of "looking to the Americans to do all the heavy lifting...
Economic problems, however, have also served as some disincentive to immigrants, who may rethink decisions to move to countries where prosperity has been fast evaporating. Thousands of Polish émigrés have left Britain for home over the past year, for instance, while the number of Mexicans moving to the United States has slowed from 14.6 per 1000 residents to 8.4 over the past two years...
When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's London visit was also disrupted by snow, Britain's international humiliation was complete. Still, say this for Londoners: They can laugh at themselves. "Good thing Hitler's dead," remarked a stock clerk in a supermarket. "He couldn't get us with the Blitz, but the place is so incapacitated now, he'd walk right in." Meeting adversity with a sort of gloomy wit is not a characteristic that always serves Brits well; they sometimes crack jokes when they should be complaining. Yet in this coldest of economic climates, an unquenchable sense of humor...