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...over their grades is that, if they can argue with the government in private, they can take those arguments public. Banks told that they must raise capital can debate the judgment and claim that the entire program is flawed. That may cause shareholders and Wall St. analysts to question the value of the entire process and whether it creates an accurate gauge of bank balance sheets and future prospects...
...question is whether the region's gobs of easy money will actually go where it is supposed to go. It's all too easy for the state's largesse to end up in the pockets of politicians and other vested interests. The other issue is the long-term damage to economies from the sheer size of the deficit spending. The Chinese spending is equivalent to nearly 13% of GDP while that in Japan comes to 5%. Australia's fiscal stimulus equals 5% of GDP too, while Korea's is at 3.7%, Taiwan's at 3.4% and Thailand...
...didn't lose because she doesn't believe in gay marriage. She lost because she's a dumb b____.' Gossip blogger and Miss USA judge PEREZ HILTON, ranting online about Miss California, Carrie Prejean, who claims she "lost the crown" because of her response to Hilton's question during the pageant about gay marriage; Prejean said only a man and a woman should...
...Director Michael Hayden argued that abusive interrogations do indeed work. He cited the arrest of a mid-level al-Qaeda member who helped coordinate 9/11, Ramzi bin al-Shibh. According to Hayden, Abu Zubaydah gave up the name after being waterboarded. This may be true, but the deeper question is, Was it worth the candle? Isn't all of the international condemnation, not to mention the demoralization of the CIA, too high a price to pay for the arrest of a mid-level al-Qaeda operative? (See pictures of the aftermath of Abu Ghraib...
...equally important question, of course, is what prison time does to the children. Estensorro acknowledges that "we see a lot of repression in the children." Kids inside the Women's Correctional Facility are punished for normal behavior like waking up in the middle of the night - because they end up waking up everyone else inside the cramped sleeping quarters. School age kids leave the prison each day to attend regular schools but nonetheless suffer isolation from their peers. Another problem: the lack of 24-hour medical care inside the prison. Worse, kids must sometimes share mom's punishment...