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...persona. Though the regal, haughty, alpha-female roles might come more easily to her, Swinton is no less convincing in less pedigreed parts. She won Golden Globe and Independent Spirit awards for The Deep End, as a middle-class mother frantically trying to protect her son and the status quo. And she's scary-good as two underclass drabs: a fishwife having a torrid, ruinous affair with Ewan McGregor in Young Adam, or Bill Murray's ex-girlfriend, now trailer trash, in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers. (She also has a few moments in Jarmusch's new film The Limits...
...Karzai underscored his disdain for U.S. preferences this week when he named as one of his running mates General Mohammed Fahim, a notorious warlord of the Northern Alliance. Washington had hoped to break the warlords' grip on power in Afghanistan; Karzai is for cementing the status quo. By way of consolation, the talk in Washington now is of bypassing Karzai as often as possible, working through approved members of his government in the capital and in the regions. But it's a potentially messy fix. Just as in Vietnam, the U.S. in Afghanistan finds itself fighting an implacable guerrilla...
...right? If you bring Hamas into the political process and it acquiesces in a peace deal, will it abandon its dreams of eradicating Israel or not? Will Palestinian statehood moderate Hamas - by making it invested in the status quo - or - simply whet its appetite for more...
...that america has become the pothole of the world economy? I think it's because the American people, losing their frontier spirit, sat back, relaxed and enjoyed their opulent status quo. They wallowed in their country's No. 1 position in the world too long. They have to reawaken themselves in a belt-tightening way, not in a nebulously optimistic one. Il-Hwan Lee, Seoul...
...blame game it used to be, this debate has recently become a more fruitful discussion between the public and private sectors—policymakers and rating agencies—about how to better design the process of rating securities and minimize conflicts of interest. “The status quo isn’t good enough,” said SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro at a roundtable discussion on the subject last week. While some problems with rating agencies are indeed structural, there are more basic issues of risk-taking behavior at stake that cannot be changed simply through regulation...