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13 June 2002 |
Bank alert on house prices
The Bank of England today issued a stark warning that house prices could collapse because the current red-hot pace of price gains is unsustainable. The cost of borrowing has been at a 38-year low since last November.
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Pigeons are coming home to roost as Blair spins into retreat.
4:51:06 PM
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Spider_Man Violence
1. "Tameside council, near Manchester, has denoted it a "PG-12", meaning children under 12 could only be admitted if they were with an adult."
Very sensible.
2. "The Spider-Man movie could be the most violent film ever aimed at young children, UK film regulators have warned."
Utter rubbish. I took a 10 year old to see The Time Machine after we couldn't get into Spider-Man. The hunting of the Eloi by the cannibal Morlocks was terrifying yet this was rated PG. Spider-Man is not disturbing at all.
4:34:15 PM
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Stop Coddling Pakistan
In the months before September 11, relations between Washington and Islamabad rapidly soured as the Bush team became enthralled with India--a country that, unlike Pakistan, offered a valuable market, a democracy, and a potential strategic partner against China. Last summer Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage lumped Pakistan in with other "rogue states"; announced that our cold war friendship with the country was a "false relationship"; and worried about its nuclear program, while expressing no similar concern about India's. But September 11, and the need for Pakistani cooperation in Afghanistan, moved the clock back to the cold war. Since then, President George W. Bush has lauded Pakistani autocrat Pervez Musharraf as a "leader with great courage and vision"; Secretary of State Colin Powell has praised his "courage and foresight"; and State Department officials have likened him to Ataturk.
They were closer to the truth the first time
7:09:26 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Nick Browne.
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