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...meeting her mother Deborah in heaven; and after 10,000 years telling Lily she was not to blame for her death, Deborah would spend the next 10,000 fixing the girl's ratty hair. ("She would brush it into such a tower of beauty, people all over heaven would drop their harps just to admire it.") The movie doesn't make a big declamatory deal of this, but after a few days with the Boatwrights, Lily looks magically presentable, pretty - because for once she's been cared...
...Thursday brought dreaded confirmation that markets look set to remain in tank mode until they find reason for taking heart anew. In addition to the 11.4% slump of Nikkei - its biggest single-day drop since the October, 1987 crash - trading Thursday elsewhere in Asia pushed Hong Kong's Hang Seng down 4.8%, South Korea's down 9.44%, and Singapore Straights Times Index down 5.5%. Europe faired no better, with London's FTSE 100 and Paris' CAC 40 indices reflecting mid-morning declines of nearing 2.5%, and Frankfurt's Dax off 1.3%. Market commentators warned that trading could see-saw throughout...
...year, as the cost of everything from oil to milk and cereal has risen. That trend is now changing as the global economy falters. Inflation leaped to a 16-year high in the U.K. in September, but elsewhere in Europe it has slowed, and economists say it should also drop back in Britain. Still, by borrowing huge amounts of cash to inject into the financial system, governments could create a medium-term inflation problem of their own. What's tricky is that the alternative is also a serious possibility: if household spending and business investment drop sharply and exports...
...best for one person won’t be best for another,” Lewis said in a written statement. “So I approve of transparency, but tend not to assign to much significance to one-dimensional rankings,” U.K. schools saw a widespread drop in rankings this year, with top universities Cambridge and Oxford falling behind Yale to third and fourth place. Higher education observers in England worry that their universities will continue to fall behind American peers due to their comparative poverty. Oxford’s endownment stands at a fifth the size...
...into a "mad frenzy," he says, holding his breath until he passed out and fell to the floor. A Navy doctor offered a prescription: whenever McCain erupted, his mother would shout to his father, "Get the water!" Then his parents would fill a bathtub with cold water and drop their fully clothed son in. "Eventually," McCain recalls in his memoirs, "I achieved a satisfactory (if only temporary) control over my emotions...