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...much the same thing. In fact, they are fundamentally different. In any event, although Northern Rock was pursuing a conspicuously high-risk business strategy, which enabled it to increase its share of the mortgage market very substantially, the new regulator proved to be asleep on the job, and the danger was completely overlooked until crisis overtook the bank last September. As a result, it had to be bailed out by the Bank of England, and an adequate deposit-protection arrangement had to be put in place to remove the threat to the rest of the U.K. banking system...
...Though Atheer and Miriam may sound impulsive, there are many such stories of love and danger in Ankawa, which is both a beacon of refuge for the country's endangered Christians, and, perhaps, the romance capital of Iraq. The main street leading into town is lined with bridal shops, and there are weddings almost every night during the high season in summer. Every Thursday and Sunday evening, teenagers and young adults used to promenade along a road nicknamed "Love Street" because of all the heavy flirting going on in between stops at ice cream parlors. Nowadays, the action has shifted...
...danger for a program like Expos is that it becomes a low-level service course, [that] anyone can teach it, [that] there is no permanent staff to it,” the individual said...
...protagonists are upstaged by their flesh-eating co-stars. Only one character, a dynamite-hurling, deaf Amish man, truly pops off the screen. His scene, although too brief, is one of the most memorable in the film. The structure of the movie also strangely lacks the sense of danger and immediacy that a zombie apocalypse usually warrants. It is essentially a road movie, and yet the destination—the home of the narrating heroine—is neither an exciting nor remote destination. They haphazardly change locations throughout the movie. While this slip in pacing in no way breaks...
...this, I think, is beginning to be understood in Europe. With the election of younger, muscular Atlanticists such as Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, debate on security matters is moving beyond the peaceful pieties of the post-war generation to a recognition that the world really can be a dangerous place, and that sometimes the only way to combat that danger is by force. "Domestic politics has enslaved foreign policy to the point where it is endangering Germany's alliances," says Jan Techau, of the German Council on Foreign Relations. "German political élites need to speak about repositioning foreign...