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...domestically and abroad, is the poster child for an institution that is allegedly "too big to fail." A much smaller financial institution, Lehman Brothers, was allowed to go down - and shock waves hit corners of the financial world, like money-market mutual funds, that no one had anticipated. The fear is not only of pain inflicted but also of unpredictability...
...fear that people might be discouraged from taking a friend to UHS,” is the essential reason for the committee, she said...
...editing error, an earlier version of the Nov. 28 column entitled "Untied Hands" incorrectly carried the sub-headline "We shouldn’t fear a borderless world." In fact, the piece is not arguing for the elimination of boundaries between countries, but instead for increased awareness of the benefits of immigration...
...China - the "fragile superpower" as one historian memorably called it - about to experience the one thing its leaders and many analysts and academics outside the country have feared for years: a violent contraction in its economy that some fear could spark widespread social unrest among its billion inhabitants? (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...want a repeat of the calamitous succession of the Panchen Lama in 1995, when China chose its own candidate. Pictures of the little boy whom the Chinese rejected as the 11th Panchen Lama - he is believed to be imprisoned - are still displayed here and there around Dharamsala. Tibetans fear that China will make a similar disruptive move after the Dalai Lama's death, taking advantage of the long traditional process of divining his next reincarnation through a series of clues...