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...long will America keep paying for the psychic wounds its good young men encountered in Iraq? How long will they be emotionally disabled by their experiences? Rachel Maddow, one of the sharpest political commentators around, said on her Air America show a few weeks ago that the war in Iraq would not end for another 75 years - until the last haunted vet dies, still screaming out his nightmares...
...That's an increasingly common wish in China, where after years of high economic growth and relatively stable consumer prices, inflation is back on the table - and a bitter fruit it is. China's Consumer Price Index showed a 5.6% year-over-year increase in July, the sharpest rise in more than a decade. Food prices soared 15.4%, with meat and poultry alone rising 45% due to shortages caused by outbreaks of livestock disease as well as severe flooding in agricultural areas. But it's not just food prices that are taxing consumers. The costs of rents and mortgages were...
...master love and public debate in the same sitting. Aaron Yoo nearly steals the movie as Hal’s curiously surreal friend Heston, who casts a strange otherworldliness that would put E.T. to shame. Despite his limited screen time, Yoo delivers some of the movie’s sharpest and funniest lines with his soft-spoken delivery...
...stock market's worst month in three years. But the events of the last few days of July felt more ominous and potentially earthshaking than that would indicate. Everybody could see the stock downturn--a couple of sharp drops followed by what looked to be directionless confusion. Yet the sharpest tremors were felt behind the scenes, in the shadowy worlds of private-equity and hedge funds...
...Sanctions represent a substantial danger to the Iranian regime because of the economic stress felt by the majority of Iranians. The sharpest indicator of their potential to spark unrest came in recent riots at gas stations in many parts of Iran, following the regime's move to ration gasoline to prepare for the still distant possibility of sanctions on its import. (Although Iran is one of the world's largest oil exporters, its own refining capacity is so poor that it is forced to import gasoline.) Tehran would obviously also prefer to avoid a frontal confrontation with the vastly technologically...