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...higher than forecast. Now comes the bank bailout, and with it, a huge increase in government borrowing. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been the first to detail his national package, and it's making fiscal hawks shudder. It involves injecting up to $65 billion into three British banks - Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Lloyds TSB - in exchange for equity stakes...
...this point that the Khmer Rouge guerrillas offered Howes the chance of freedom, instructing him to leave and return with a ransom for the release of his colleagues. A former member of the Royal Engineers and veteran of the war in the Falklands, Howes refused to leave his Cambodian team behind, possibly believing they stood a better chance of survival if he continued to negotiate for their release...
...fruits of tense negotiations between the government and British lenders - talks given added urgency by the meltdown in global markets at the end of last week - the bailout is breathtaking for its scale. British taxpayers are on the hook for a $34 billion investment in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Britain's second-largest lender, a cash injection amounting to almost double the bank's current market capitalization. Most of the investment will take the form of ordinary shares, which private investors are invited to purchase along with the government. But under the deal, those shares yield no dividends...
...Chalfie will split the $1.4 million prize—awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences—with Roger Y. Tsien ’72, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and Osamu Shimomura, an emeritus professor at Boston University Medical School...
...absolutely pointless, allow me to mention some choice moments from the film that emphasize its key aspects.The dialogue, dubbed in English from its original French, included choice lines like “A woman’s weeping is like a melodious modulation,” spoken by the royal Lord Jeffries while a female character is tortured. Later, the maniacal and (of course!) secretly lesbian Lady DeWinter proclaims that the nun witch Kathleen and her lover Thomas Rinfield will die “the longest death ever!” with her last syllable nearly...