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...timing of the move was extraordinary and should be seen as a sign of relative confidence. It came, as Ulrich put it, in "stark contrast with major offshore markets - including the U.S., where regulators temporarily banned short-selling in recent weeks." And leverage - using borrowed money to buy or sell shares - is now viewed by politicians in the U.S. as the root of all financial evils. But the experiment in China is aimed at boosting sentiment in a stock market that has been crushed over the past year, for reasons only partly related to the global equity slump. Regulators...
...consists of a sparse hospital room, an empty space filled with a single park bench, and an apartment with a large couch and cozy furnishings, and is symbolic of the two worlds that Callie and Sara are torn between. The comfortable, safe feeling of the apartment is a stark contrast to the bare, unknown hospital space. Separating the two is the park bench where Callie and Sara share their “stop kiss.” Throughout the play, the bench remains as a constant reminder of the gap between where the characters are and where their emotions...
...Peter Brown, an independent pollster of swing states at Quinnipiac University, put the McCain problem into stark historical relief last week, when he released polls from Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, which all showed McCain slipping. "Senator John McCain has his work cut out for him if he is to win the presidency," Brown said. "There does not appear to be a role model for such a comeback in the last half-century...
...legendary American investor, likes to say that it's only when the tide goes out that you find out who's been swimming naked. In the long-sheltered world of European banking, the tide has gone out very fast in the past few days - and it's exposing some stark truths: a worrying number of banks are overstretched or have taken outsized risks, and the system of banking regulation that is supposed to watch over them is too narrowly focused for comfort...
...moved on to make other works in series, notably the black on black canvases from 1964. In each of them, a black square rides on a background only very slightly less black. Rothko wasn't fiddling with an art-historical endgame here, trying to see how flat and stark he could make his pictures. The Black-Form paintings, as they are known, are emblems for existence itself, statements at a near-molecular level of detail about the minimal order necessary to distinguish life from the disorder of death. Indeed, look at them long enough and they make you think...