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...Thorns lurk in some bouquets. A columnist for Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung drew parallels between the famously moody Brown and the "sociopath" Churchill. However provocative, the comparison is apt: that just as war allowed Churchill to shine, so does the economic crisis play to Brown's strengths...
...reminded of bath time as a child in my grandparents’ enormous tub. I would slide down on my back, submerge my whole body and then lurk there, grinning, until with luxurious slowness I let my stomach rise from the water. The smooth expanse looked like an island; I imagined my belly button as a lake. Each of my two knees would emerge in turn like mountains from the deep...
...Census Bureau touted some optimistic news in its annual report on U.S. household finances, but ominous signs lurk behind the headlines. The 2007 data predate the full onset of the economic crisis, but some indicators warn of turmoil ahead...
...dispute over the bomb's authorship and whatever shady conspiracy may lurk behind it heightens the expectation, too, for the Constitutional Court's ruling on banning the governing AKP party for undermining Turkey's secular traditions. The judges met for a marathon 12-hr. session yesterday, suggesting that their potentially explosive judgment on that question may not be long in coming...
...Hindus who wait hours in line at the Vatican. We go to the Bahamas and spend the whole day indoors reading. And here, at The Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai, my parents harangue our guide with loud questions and snap pictures as people pray and my brother and I lurk behind...