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Many thought a silver lining of last year’s financial crisis—or from the populist rage that flared against Wall Street excess and profits from leverage, not creativity—would be that earnings differentials would return from obscene to merely enormous levels, if not to the very generous multiples that had long been adequate to fuel a vibrant economy. Well, the hyper-bonuses are back—astonishingly having been made even easier to achieve with taxpayers socializing the downside risks. And the crisis? What crisis...
That remains to be seen, but the world cannot afford the failure of Sheik Mohammed. Whatever Dubai's excesses, this metropolis on the desert edge - not Cairo, Beirut, Tehran or Tel Aviv - has become the Middle East's crossroads of cooperation. In a region where conflicts still rage, Dubai has become a place where Arabs and others have learned to go to build a future together. In a 2007 speech to international business leaders, Sheik Mohammed chastised Arabs who preferred "to sit around waiting, praising our glorious past and blaming others for our failures and our problems." Instead, he said...
...ever get road rage? I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?' But I find myself being a little impatient if I'm not driving past other people. I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated...
PTSD wasn't recognized as an illness until the 1980s, but it has been around for as long as men have been killing one another. Its symptoms include the abuse of alcohol and other drugs, an overall emotional numbness punctuated by outbursts of rage, severe depression and recurring nightmares. In extreme cases, it can lead to suicide or murder. One military doctor described PTSD's symptoms as "going from zero to combat speed in nothing flat...
...moments on the outside—where the swaggering Bronson is, for once, ill at ease—the film is at its funniest. Flushed and shaking with rage, he manages to suppress a violent outburst when his sweetheart declines his marriage proposal for another man. Believing his fighting prowess would find him fame overnight, he complains to his handler that his most recent display was underappreciated “magic”: “Magic? You just pissed on a gypsy in the middle of fucking nowhere. It’s hardly the hottest ticket in town...