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...additional 33%. "We're at a tipping point of whether foreigners take a massive stake out of the U.S.," says Joseph Quinlan, senior global economist at Morgan Stanley. "If you have another accounting issue along with weaker than expected growth and poor profitability, then you may see a vicious circle." The next in the series. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/Jackson, Daren Fonda/New York City and Collette Parker/Atlanta
Kilson wrote that “Randall Kennedy, it appears, has no sense of responsibility for the vicious racial fires he has cynically ignited,” justifying his claim by noting that none of “a variety of news reports” indicated that Kennedy “surfaced to assist the officials of the Law School in managing the crisis and calming the waters...
...much-maligned concept of “good and evil” returned in full force after Sept. 11, we are repeatedly told; but differentiating between good and evil requires us to recognize even subtle, craftily-disguised forms of evil. The bottom line is this: John Gotti was a vicious thug who either murdered or ordered the murders of many, many people, including the man who accidentally killed his son Frank in a tragic car crash. While we may not have sympathy for all of his victims—they were, of course, mostly amoral wiseguys just like him?...
...Duterte, who graduated as a lawyer in 1972?the year Marcos proclaimed martial law?rose to prominence against this backdrop of vicious mayhem. As a city prosecutor he made his reputation by targeting military and rebel abuses with equal fervor. The son of a former provincial governor, Duterte says his father taught him that elected officials must serve the greater good no matter what it takes, like a father protecting and disciplining his family. And Duterte was fearless: even as a teenager, he refused to back down from fights?or whippings from his mother?despite being a self-confessed skinny...
Proving that Harold Bloom's literary theories apply to rock, the Hives now sound like a sincere misinterpretation of the bands they loved. The blazing three-chord song structures on Veni Vidi Vicious, the Hives' debut American album (released in April), are so imitative--of the Ramones, the Sonics, the Stooges, you name it--that the album would be plagiaristic if not for Pelle's elastic voice, which travels to incredible peaks to rip off Little Richard. Are they better than the classics they imitate? No. But the songs are awfully catchy--and the Hives aren't kidding themselves, either...