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...money can be found, Estens would like to employ a manager for the security service, to ease some of the workload of local AES boss Mike Nolan. While some in the AES worry about a change in direction in the security service - away from events and supermarkets to quasi-policing in no-go estates - Estens believes the work is important in restoring male status. "The idea of the warrior and the place of men in Aboriginal families has been eroded," he says. "Security work builds male self-esteem in these towns...
...biggest detriments to the region's export-led growth. The only way out is for Asia to become less dependent upon exports, by pressing on with measures to boost internal private consumption. Currency manipulation?whether it's by the Japanese, the Chinese, or other quasi-pegged Asian economies?is no panacea for unbalanced growth...
Taken together, the two screenplays show that the battle of Iwo Jima--and by implication, the whole war in the Pacific--was not just a clash of arms but a clash of cultures. The Japanese officer class, imbued with the quasi-religious fervor of their Bushido code, believed that surrender was dishonor, that they were all obliged to die in defense of their small island. That, of course, was not true of the attacking Americans. As Eastwood puts it, "They knew they were going into harm's way, but you can't tell an American he's absolutely fated...
...would seem that the once quasi-justifiable living-wage campaign has descended into the realm of the absurd...
...Rice notes in an afterword that since 1998 she has been a passionate Catholic. And two, it was Rice's profound earnestness, her unwinking commitment to the material, that brought such power to her handling of vampires (who, like Jesus, one could argue, are beings of a dual, quasi-human nature). At the time vampires were in danger of sliding into camp, and they needed her earnestness. Jesus, not quite so much...