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...1990s foreshadowed the current situation and argues that the rise of unregulated financial institutions--or "shadow banks"--since then has been the real problem. The solution: Policymakers around the world need to "get credit flowing again and prop up spending." Until that happens, though, it's time to hunker down and "relearn the lessons our grandfathers were taught by the Great Depression...
...protection of every civilian. We were brought in as a peacekeeping force, and we have now had to take on some dimensions of peace enforcement. Self-protection is part of the soldiers' motivation - and that's the right of every armed force. But [MONUC forces] don't just hunker down in their bases. They are out on patrol. Even so, if something bad is happening in a house a kilometer away, we cannot really prevent that...
...will hope that the junta in Burma will learn the lessons of Chernobyl and Mexico City, and realize that they cannot continue as they have before. Realists, sadly, will note how long Burma's rulers have defied the manifest will of their own people, and guess that they will hunker down again. It would be nice if the realists were to be proved wrong. Until then, those within Burma as well as those from afar who genuinely care about its prospects can do little but hope for better, cloudless, days to come...
...places Democrats could hunker down for a long fight in their epic 50-state scramble for the presidential nomination, Pennsylvania is perhaps the most illuminating. Politically speaking, when Pennsylvania gets the sniffles, America braces for a fever...
...both sides hunker down in talks, the political arguments in France are unlikely to subside. Dassault's president Charles Edelstenne said yesterday that criticisms over Libya's human-rights records were irrelevant to his negotiations. "If we start to enter into that debate there wouldn't be any international trade," he said. Yet other doubts could also emerge, including the real danger of selling lethal weaponry to an uncertain ally, who has only just emerged from a very long isolation. Says Brookes: "If Libyan Rafales were to end up with a third party who used them against Western forces...