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...asked "Who can lead us out of this mess?" We also have to ask; "Who got us into this mess and how do we get them to their Nuremberg?" Joachim Zimmer, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA...
...sight of an ascendant Brown sticks in the craws of Conservatives. In private, they're Oliver Hardys, expostulating over the nice mess they say Brown has gotten the country into. In public, they mostly retreat from confrontation like a herd of Stan Laurels. Opposition parties have pledged for now to support the government's efforts to end the turmoil, but are itching to emphasize Brown's own role in creating it. "When he rewrote financial regulation in 1997, Gordon Brown took away the Bank of England's power to call time on the build-up of debt," Conservative Shadow Chancellor...
...Mike Nichols' The Graduate: "A mess, a film that cries out for thorough reconstruction and critical debate. I think it's a cold, heartless entertainment, never more ruthless than when dumping charm on us...Still, for the moment it is said to be one of everybody's favorites...
...their infinite wisdom, European governments have now decided that letting the state effectively get control of ailing banks is the way out the current financial mess. But the French government really messed up the last time it had control of a chunk of the nation's banking system. That was when President Francois Mitterrand nationalized banks in the 1980s. In fact, for a good part of the 1990s, the French budget was knocked sideways because of the losses incurred at just one state-run bank, Credit Lyonnais. The German state's track record in banking isn't much better. Regional...
...Another amateurish sign: Todd Palin's outsize role in the mess. Branchflower said it was out of his jurisdiction to pass judgment on the First Gentleman, but his report paints an extralegal role for Todd Palin that would have made the Hillary Clinton of 1992 blush. In the report, the head of Gov. Palin's security detail says that Todd spent about half of his time in the governor's office - not at a desk (he didn't have one), but at a long conference table on one side of the office, with his own phone to make and receive...