Word: smalleness
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...Yellow Handkerchief is one of those small movies that seems to have a great deal going against it - implausibility of action, a contrived caginess and a dangerous need to be regionally evocative - but somehow manages to win you over, sucking you into its peculiar mood...
...both fiercely competitive and entertainingly playful. He chases artists signed to other music companies with fervor, personally persuading the Rolling Stones to switch over from rival record company EMI two years ago. And once he's wooed acts, he can keep them on board - no small achievement in an industry not short of ego. When he was honored at London's Grosvenor Hotel with a Music Industry Trust Award in November 2008, he was feted by some of the biggest names in the business. Bono and the rest of U2 presented the award, Take That performed, and Benny Andersson...
Which makes the backdrop to the pound's latest dip - the massive public debt and deficit, and the potential threat to Britain's triple A investment rating - a far greater problem for the currency than anything else. The rest is small change...
Quietly, U.S. diplomats, aid workers and military trainers have been working in the frontier tribal areas with the army and whatever brave tribal maliks they can find. The idea, say Pakistani military officials, is to identify fast projects - small dams or marble quarries, for example - and get them built and working under the protection of those tribes that will benefit directly. Only this way, say officials, can the tribes turn away from the militant-run enterprises - banditry and running guns and drugs - that earn them money...
...restore the monarchy. Ironically, the influence of India is the one point on which the former King and the Maoist former Prime Minister agree. When Gyanendra was on the throne, he too chafed at any hint of excessive Indian influence. It may be an inevitable dilemma for a small country squeezed between two giants - and one that Nepal has less than three months to resolve...