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...goodwill their efforts engender can make it easier for them to do business, thus bolstering their bottom line. "This is what we call a license to operate," Hashemi explains. "Once you gain the trust of a community, you're safer there." Butler, a former army brigadier who commanded British forces in southern Afghanistan, calls it "soft security...
...pass through the Suez Canal annually. There are several gangs of pirates; armed with Kalashnikov rifles and traveling on small fishing boats and skiffs, they have attacked more than 80 ships and hijacked at least 30, collecting anywhere from $18 million to $30 million in ransom, according to the British strategic think tank Chatham House. Big paydays have made them progressively bolder: one gang is still holding on to the MV Faina, the Ukrainian freighter carrying a consignment of Russian tanks that was hijacked on Sept...
Craig's Bond, already a noble thug in Casino, has a deeper reason for moodiness here: the love of his life has just died. Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) was a British Treasury agent whose motives Bond misinterpreted, leading to her selfless suicide. Quantum, the first true sequel in the series, begins an hour after Casino ended. Bond wins a frantic car chase, and in his trunk is a prize for his MI6 boss, M (Judi Dench): a board member of the outlaw cartel once known as SPECTRE, now called Quantum. Instantly, Bond is running in all directions: pursuing and eluding...
...likely in January, when Barack Obama moves into the White House. And it's not just Washington: China has announced a $586 billion stimulus plan, although it's not clear how much of that will be new spending. Germany has approved $29 billion in spending and tax cuts. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to announce tax cuts soon...
...Spoken Word The British Library culled its archives for recordings of famous authors, with astounding results. A jovial, elderly J.R.R. Tolkien! A wise, patrician Virginia Woolf! And Ian Fleming interviewing Raymond Chandler, who sounds more pickled than hard-boiled...