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NATO undoubtedly does look inviting to most Europeans, but allow me a little Anglo-Saxon sniffiness here. Joffe admits that Europe's two big hitters are avoiding the trickier parts of Afghanistan. It seems that NATO's reputation is being built more on British (and Dutch) sacrifice than anyone else's. And while young Britons are dying in Afghanistan, it ill behoves NATO's nonperformers to dance a victory jig. Robert F. Birkett, DRINKSTONE GREEN, ENGLAND...
...question is whether the IMF is up to the job being thrust upon it. The huge boost to its reserves exists on paper, but it's not yet clear where all that money will come from. Japan has pledged $100 billion. Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister who hosted the G-20 summit, said the European Union would put up $100 billion and that China would provide $40 billion. But Chinese officials wouldn't confirm that amount - and even if the money is forthcoming, it still leaves $260 billion unaccounted for. At a time when governments are financially overstretched, that...
...would buy Sir Liam Donaldson a pint these days? Not many Brits, I expect. The chief medical officer's proposal to tackle the great British scourge of binge drinking - a minimum price of 75 cents per unit of alcohol - was shot down by almost everyone from 10 Downing Street to the bloke propping up the bar at the Slug and Lettuce...
...Statham, 36, was an Olympic diver for the British team, and a model, before appearing in two early Guy Ritchie crime movies a decade ago. Since then, he's established himself in a couple of franchises: Transporter (three films) and Crank (two; but if the grosses stay this stagnant, don't count on a third). He's manfully filled the B-movie action slots once occupied by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal. His movies generally pull first-weekend numbers in the teen-millions and end up in the $25-40 million domestic range - not bad for productions that...
...delicate one. So those who knew him, and those who were inspired by him, have decided to continue Hu's work in Hong Kong. "I know Hong Kong has many problems, like self-censorship," Meng said at a downtown coffee shop a few weeks ago here in the former British colony as he evaluated his political options in China. "Hong Kong also has a reputation for not caring about politics. But it is still a good platform." And so the publisher, who still wears a backpack and has a pony tail, left the interview and ran to the next meeting...