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...find the time to start a trilogy of vampire novels? I started it actually about four years ago. The idea behind The Strain was to try and marry old Eastern European folklore with an urban procedural feel. Which is very much the way, back in the day, Dracula must have read to contemporary readers. It was a very now, in the moment, modern novel. And I wanted to recapture that a little...
Europe's banks are in much worse shape, with a ratio of 40.5. They must either sell $9.7 trillion in assets or raise $485 billion in capital to bring leverage down to 20. The Royal Bank of Scotland (estimated leverage: 39.3) has already started slimming down. It recently put its retail and commercial businesses in Asia on the block. New CEO Stephen Hester has announced plans to create a subsidiary that will hold about $477 billion of the bank's assets that are earmarked for disposal...
...need to look forward. At present, our trials and our trial processes in the courts of the United States of America are effectively hidden from public view, seen and heard only by those few who attend. The only record of the whole proceeding is a written transcript that must be purchased to be seen, or such reports as those few in physical attendance choose to make. The constitutional ideal of government-of-and-by-the-people is hollow when the people lack the real and practical means to see and hear and understand the proceedings for themselves...
...approach the logical challenge. If someone truly believes that abortion is the same as murder, then is not bombing abortion clinics or killing the doctors comparable to bombing concentration camps or killing their commandants? I've heard pro-choice activists argue that even pro-lifers must view abortion as something less than murder, or else they would be taking more extreme action to stop it. At the very least, they'd be arguing that abortion should be not merely illegal but criminal and that the doctors and even the patients should face jail time...
Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, just returned from a trip to China, where, he told the Wall Street Journal, "senior officials grilled me about whether or not we are going to monetize the actions of our legislature. I must have been asked about that a hundred times...