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...bombs arriving in Iraq from Iran has been halved between July and October. And while alarmists were quick to note the U.S. Navy's deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf off Iran's coast earlier this year, they have been largely mute as the two ships were replaced by a solo carrier in August...
...course there are similarities. But in those other scenarios, all of those things happened at the same time as a recession happened. It accelerated the negative. The fact that we've had a financial crisis at the same time as the country is in a growing phase will mute the impact overall. So we'll have a relatively minor correction, but more than likely a correction...
...that he had already served more than six years under house arrest. Arroyo painted the pardon as a bid for national reconciliation. But her critics impute a more cynical motive: Estrada, who remains wildly popular among the masses, has been a virulent opponent of her administration; pardoning him may mute that criticism...
...Corbucci went from hot to frigid with The Great Silence (1968), a snowbound Western in which a mute Jean-Louis Trintignant, the Man With No Voice, sets out to even the odds against the nasties who cut out his tongue. It's a plot similar to the film Leone was making that year: Once Upon a Time in the West, another decades-old revenge story and one of the great, elegiac Westerns. It was horse opera rendered as grand opera, with Morricone's fullest, most voluptuous score. Corbucci's vision was much bleaker. For once the good guy doesn...
...every five Jewish people I have loved, I hardly know one Arab. Indeed, I am troubled by the insouciance of the Arab and Muslim world in the face of unjust suffering by people who look like me. A region so publicly committed to its anti-racist religious tradition remains mute over the atrocities of the Arab and Islamic government of Sudan against Africans in Darfur and the south. Osama bin Laden and his cheerleaders treat as insignificant the deaths of hundreds of non-partisan Africans in the bombings of the U.S. embassies at Nairobi and Dar es Salaam...