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They didn't pry the lid off my coffin with the Sideways offer. I was busy living my life. I have a baby daughter. Acting wasn't a priority...
Tigers center Judson Wallace—who carried his team on his ailing back all night—drew a foul from Jaaber. Wallace nailed both. Out of view of the CN8 cameras, a large plastic lid was then placed on the hoop...
...forestall massive layoffs and keep a lid on civil unrest, the government has in the past propped up struggling SOEs with loans from state banks. But China's banking system is awash in bad loans, so now Beijing prefers companies to raise capital by going public. "Stock markets should be a vigorous entrepreneurial way to promote capitalism, but China uses them to manage the slow decline of state companies," says Matthew Rudolph, a fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs in Hanover, New Hampshire, who is writing a book on China's markets. Investors "are just helping the government...
...mass-murderer to line their own pockets? Why has Kofi Annan, the person ultimately responsible for the UN’s conduct, not had his feet held to the fire as any other public figure would? What’s more, why have the people who blew the lid on this scandal not been honored? The women who blew open scandals at the FBI, Worldcom, and Enron were honored with extensive media coverage, interviews and eventually shared Time magazine’s person of the year award...
...make their intervention meaningful. Privately, officers predict that the number of peacekeepers will grow significantly, possibly to as high as 20,000. International aid organizations also complain of a shortage of personnel to manage the crisis. But while putting more neutrals on the ground may help keep a lid on things, it's not a recipe for lasting peace. "You might be able to stabilize, but that's not a solution," says the Western diplomat...