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...resort, made emergency cash available to Northern Rock last week. When that triggered a run on the High Street lender, with customers lining up for days to take back their savings, King still failed to utter a word. And when the government finally stepped in Monday to offer a gilt-edge guarantee for spooked depositors in the form of cash, the silence was deafening...
...That gilt-edged pledge helped shares in Northern Rock recover. But the conditions that triggered the crisis - not to mention its fallout - look set to linger...
...That dramatic, gilt-edged guarantee (since, even theoretically, it has put U.K. taxpayers on the hook to bail out a business that supposedly lived and died in the free market) was enough to calm the markets Tuesday. While some of the Newcastle-based bank's savers still waited in lines to withdraw their cash, the bank's stock rose 11% in early trading, halting the freefall that has halved its share price since Thursday...
...very much alive. If the crowd gathered at the chapel was reserved and respectful, this was the place for Union Jack-covered folding chairs - and a strong sense of many people's still very protective stake in Diana. Here, as one sign pinned to the Palace's thick, black, gilt-edged gates read, was "The People's Memorial." Depending where you looked, amid the pink paper hearts and purple balloons, Diana was "The People's Princess," "The Queen of Hearts" or "England's Rose...
...Institute chose his screen incarnation, by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, as the No. 1 villain in Hollywood history. (Clarice Starling, the FBI agent played by Jodie Foster in Silence, was named the top female movie hero. But that was due to either affirmative action or gilt by association.) The AFI also chose Hannibal's description of how his disposed of one of his victims - "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" - as the 21st most famous movie quote of all time...