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...conceals a violent temper and a questing spirit. Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) is not much help, preoccupied as he is with helping another superhero, Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), in a secret experiment that may save the world or put a big hole in it. Dr. M. has also paid scant heed to his girlfriend Laurie (Malin Akerman), a.k.a. Silk Spectre II, who's ready to fall into the arms of nerdy Dan Dreiberg (Patrick Wilson), a.k.a. Nite Owl II--some new Watchmen have moved up as older ones have retired. Meanwhile, still President Nixon (Robert Wisden) and other U.S. officials...
...inkblot mask, as the questing sleuth. Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) is not much help in the search, preoccupied as he is with helping another superhero, Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), in a secret experiment that may save the world or put a big hole in it. Dr. M. has also paid scant heed to his girlfriend Laurie (Malin Akerman), a.k.a. Silk Spectre II, who's ready to fall into the open arms of nerdy Dan Dreiberg (Patrick Wilson), a.k.a. Nite Owl II - some new Watchmen have moved up when older ones retired. Meanwhile, still-President Nixon (Robert Wisden) and other...
...Ireland's downturn has also laid bare some ugly home truths - scandals indicative of a boom-years culture of nepotism and scant regulation that some say is as much to blame for the nation's economic malaise as the global downturn. In December, it emerged that Sean FitzPatrick, the then chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, Ireland's third largest bank, had concealed from shareholders more than $100 million in personal loans by transferring them temporarily to a building society. After FitzPatrick quit, the Irish government stepped in to nationalize Anglo Irish, but the damage to public confidence had already been...
...before the tribunal. Syria, which politically controlled Lebanon at the time of Hariri?s death, remains the chief suspect in the murder. An initial report by a UN commission, which began investigating Hariri?s death in 2005, implicated several senior Syrian and Lebanese officials. Subsequent reports, however, have been scant on detail, and it remains unknown what evidence the commission has amassed. Daniel Bellemare, the head of the UN commission for the past year, is expected to continue the investigation when he takes up the role on March 1 as chief prosecutor for the tribunal...
...Asia's approach to layoffs contrasts with attitudes in the U.S., where staff cuts are considered to be a standard corporate coping strategy during business downturns. In January, for example, U.S. employers eliminated 598,000 jobs - the most in any month in 34 years - but there was scant public debate over whether the layoffs were necessary or justified. Then again, laid-off U.S. and European workers are usually entitled to government support in the form of unemployment insurance and other programs. In Asia, governments have traditionally seen worker welfare as the purview of the company and family, not the taxpayer...