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...late to save the summit. What's needed is a handful of clear deliverables - specific, intelligible measures to reassure the public and financial markets alike that governments are on top of the problem. Four suggestions...
...bonuses were retention payments promised early last year, when it was clear that London-based AIG FP was in trouble but not yet apparent that its parent company wouldn't survive without $170 billion (and counting) in taxpayer aid. Without that aid, AIG would have gone bankrupt in September and the bonus promises would have been torn up. AIG was not allowed to go bankrupt because Lehman Brothers had just failed and the people at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve worried (with reason) that another failure - in particular, the failure of a firm that wrote default insurance...
...even if every community in America woke up tomorrow and decided to put an end to the sex-education wars--laying aside the chastity belts and condom bananas and embracing comprehensive, abstinence-first education--it's not clear that much would change. That's because for all the battles over funding and policies, no one really knows how sex education is taught inside most classrooms. While most states and local school districts have policies regarding sex education, very few set standards on how to give students factual information about sex or teach them to develop healthy relationships. Even fewer attempt...
...crucial difference between comprehensive programs that work and older curriculums that focused exclusively on promoting safe sex (remember learning how to put a condom on a banana?) is the new emphasis on behavior. "The older programs were less likely to deliver a clear message about behavior," Kirby says. "It was, 'Here are the facts, here are the pros and cons. You decide what's right for you.'" By contrast, he explains, the effective programs these days "have a very clear message that not having sex is the safest choice. They put emphasis on skill-building and role-playing, they teach...
Duplicity is just as much a proclamation as her scene with the paparazzi. It's intentionally a wedding-dress-free zone. Claire would like Ray Koval (Owen) to love her, but it's clear she'd survive without him. Their relationship is not a road to an altar; it's about being with someone who gets you. It's mature love, in short, even if it's set in a glamorous cloak-and-dagger world where the goal is to scam the bosses into funding your fabulous lifestyle...