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...public companies that the government's shares can be sold. That will be nearly impossible. The minute the Fed signals that it is time for an orderly exit is the minute that other shareholders get panicky, driving the value of the firms down. In a vicious circle, the value of the government's interests get depressed by the fact that it would like to get taxpayers their money back. Even if the value of banks rise temporarily. taking the profits off the table will be problematic...
...bumbling and sometimes brutal Thai security forces. McCargo is scathing about them. The army subcontracts much of the fighting to ill-disciplined paramilitaries, he writes, keeping its best-trained troops close to Bangkok to stymie or stage coups d'état. The police, McCargo says, are "vicious and incompetent." His unsparing criticism is supported by groups like Human Rights Watch, which, in a 2007 report, attributed 21 "disappearances" to the security forces, including that of campaigning Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelaphaichit...
...Academic rewards, the report notes, are still largely bestowed by men, who have had decades more time to become ensconced in positions of campus authority. And until more women get promoted to full professorships - the springboards to plum administrative posts - that's unlikely to change. "It's a vicious circle," says Feal...
...just like the ones they use!—their yellow seats burst apart and the gang is thrust into an entirely new dimension—where light shoots in columns, winds rush from nowhere, singers wear outfits that are made of metallic purple plastic and sleek leather, and vicious guitar-playing Muppet-hunters flaunt their kills as their garb. In this world, rocking out is mandatory. Yet still, in this “Heavy Metal” meets ColecoVision universe, Black Kids find meaning in the madness. Frontman Reggie Youngblood is suddenly transplanted to a dramatic cliff, preaching...
National Organization for Marriage • Stephen Colbert is ridiculously thanked by for making vicious fun of, and then more vicious fun is made...