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...have the global economic heft it once did. The U.S. stock market today accounts for 35% of world market cap, compared to 50% just 10 years ago. In recent times, as the American economy has slowed, other countries, such as China and Germany, which once could have been relied upon to follow, have actually continued to see growth...
...Still, Taiwan does offer Southeast Asian wives free language classes and the opportunity to work or study upon arrival. Some have adjusted well: Mae-kwang, for example, whose delectably addictive Vietnamese restaurant near my home has three busy branches all within a minute's walk...
...they make their way through the contests, all of the candidates increasingly will be called upon to answer another overarching question: Which of them, come November, has the best chance of beating whomever the Democrats will nominate...
...ideas Allen likes to keep circling back upon is the heavily ironic notion that it is perfectly possible - literally - to get away with murder, totally unpunished, in the godless and amoral modern world. It is the theme of two of his best films, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point, and it is a central element in this movie. Like the protagonists of those earlier films, the brothers are not inherently evil people. They're just rather careless ones. Or perhaps one should say ungrounded. Terry is hard-working mechanic, rather decent at heart, but afflicted with addictions to gambling...
...plot to kill her. Accusing him of plotting Bhutto's death is wrong. Cars have been burned, and Musharraf symbols have been destroyed out of hatred and anger. Martial law might be needed to prevent total chaos in the nation. Extremists must not be allowed to win the day upon the body of Bhutto. Crystal Dueker, Fargo, North Dakota...