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...what can be taken away from the stress-tests exercise? That even lenient stress tests show that several large banks still need additional capital. Beyond that, there are more questions: Will the capital-requirement prescription unveiled by the stress tests be enough? And how will banks prop up their balance sheets...
...that lives in the 21st century, the movement appears to be rooted in Pakistan's social fabric. The Taliban's recent advances have been accomplished in no small part through recruiting locals to its cause by exploiting long-standing resentment toward the venal local judicial and administrative authorities that prop up a feudal social order...
...going about sex on campus,” Daniel F. Selgrade ’12 said after the seminar. “Women don’t get what they want.” Locker also mentioned the importance of safe sex. With a volunteer holding a rubber penis prop, Locker gave a descriptive step-by-step demonstration of how to use a condom. As she displayed rubber penises of various sizes, Locker took the opportunity to discuss penis size, arguing that size is less important for good sex than the compatibility of the partners. “There...
...getting married? We're kind of die-hard holdouts. We have so many friends who got married right before the election, and it was a really fun time. We went to a zillion parties. But I [could] see the writing on the wall, and I had a feeling that Prop. 8 was going to pass. It was a really crushing blow to our friends to go from this kind of high of exhilaration to this stunning defeat. So Lori and I feel we're going to wait until there's one marriage across the board, and it might be awhile...
SIMON COWELL insinuates he may quit American Idol, leaving no one to prop up Paula...