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...just shutting up and learning to live with it. But some people see study and exploration as a stronger way to approach the problem. The more we learn about ourselves and others, the more likely we are to feel happy and safe. And in a world of meaningless drunken hook-ups, perhaps it’s time we started getting more of what we wanted...
...hits; I’m surprised that it took this long for someone more appealing than Akon or T-Pain to cash in. Lyrically, Sean’s track is tough but treacly, and manages to pull off using the word “suicidal” in the hook. It’s a lightweight, but it’s a winner. Grade: B UGK – “Int’l Players Anthem” The first verse is the best minute of music released this year. Andre 3000 delivers a tightwire flow over...
...with a definitive gesture to stem the panic. In an unprecedented move, the Treasury announced on Sept. 17 that it would guarantee all deposits held with Northern Rock. "I want to put the matter beyond doubt," announced Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, putting British taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars of Northern Rock deposits in the (extremely unlikely) event it did default. Users' cash squirreled away at the bank, he said, "will be guaranteed safe and secure...
...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...
...question: Which should have the higher priority in the war against al-Qaeda, Iraq or the rebuilt al-Qaeda leadership and terrorist camps, festering on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border? Feingold had forced Crocker, the elusive former ambassador to Pakistan, into a corner and then, inexplicably, let him off the hook and turned to Petraeus, who rightly claimed a lack of knowledge or authority to answer that question. The nonanswer stood as the Bush Administration's response to an essential strategic issue...