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...Yank said he hopes it will bring HRTV to a wider audience...
...workaholic Anna Reilly, whose greatest accomplishment thus far has been talking McDonald's out of the McOyster. In particular, Elfman is given a chance to break out of her television mold as she plays a business-driven character who is essentially the anti-Dharma, and demonstrates a wider range than she was allowed in her previous films (_EdTV_, _Grosse Pointe Blanke_). Rounding out the eclectic cast is the classic Anne Brancroft as Jacob's passionately Jewish mom, and Milos Foreman, (Norton's _The People Vs. Larry Flynt_ director) as an older priest who guides Brian through his personal and religious...
Domestic violence, however, is a crime, that is easily contained, and therefore easily ignored. Violence from domestic situations rarely spreads into the wider community, and arrests are almost always made on-scene...
...lender of last resort to guarantee the stability of the international monetary system. Designed to promote economic growth, it disburses some $30 billion annually in loans to developing and transitional countries. It also provides emergency loans to countries facing currency collapse, in order to minimize the danger to the wider world economy. Most recently, it played a leading role - at Washington's behest - in bailing out the troubled economies of Mexico in 1994 and Asia and Latin America during the financial crisis of 1997-98, as well in ensuring the liquidity of the Russian government...
...that the constituencies most affected by economic decision-making should have a voice in shaping those decisions. The overall impact of the publicity created by the Seattle demonstrations - and no doubt, the Washington, D.C., round - has certainly been to shift policy issues typically confined to economic experts into the wider realm of public debate...