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...between the people and regime, to widen on their own," suggests Sadjadpour. "As Napoleon once said, 'If your enemy is destroying himself, don't interfere.' The truth is, we don't know how sanctions on refined petroleum could play out, and our bottom line should be to do no harm to the prospects for political change in Iran...
...release of the movie Jailhouse Rock - 43% of Manhattan students and 11% of New York City teachers reported absent from school in a single day. By the time it dissipated, about 1 in 4 Americans had taken ill from the disease, though the vast majority recovered without any lasting harm, according to a study by the Center for Biosecurity in Baltimore...
...same time, the damages that Tenenbaum faced—up to $4.5 million—were disproportionate to the harm caused by his actions, Nesson added. Downloading a song legally via Amazon.com, for instance, costs a user 99 cents, and consequently, Nesson said, the magnitude of possible damages seemed unreasonable in comparison...
...their efforts to expand, going without government bailouts during the depths of the crisis last fall won't have done either bank's prospects any harm. While Barclays and HSBC have both benefited from taxpayer loans or guarantees - part of a $2 trillion package of state and central-bank aid doled out to Britain's lenders - both "have worked hard on their balance sheets," says Simon Maughan, a banking analyst at MF Global brokerage in London. Having tapped Middle East investors last year in an effort to bolster its capital base, Barclays agreed in June to sell the investment unit...
...Fisher says Sierra Leoneans need to forgive each other and hold the people who caused the most harm accountable. Many of the songs that come out of the two small rooms at Body Guard Studio are about corruption and greedy politicians - some of the biggest obstacles to true development. In Freetown, there are signs of progress. The city has a relatively functional municipal electricity grid, cheap and easy public transportation, and a budding democratic government. But, as the song "One Love" recognizes, Sierra Leone still has a long way to go before the animosity that enabled war to sweep over...