To be body-bag averse is far from shameful: no one should relish unnecessary casualties, and technology now enables Americans to do much of their fighting from a height or a distance in comparative safety.

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It has placed its faith in the colossal safety-net that the government strung under the banks at the height of the 1997-98 crisis.

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There aren't too many occasions in life where one is called upon to climb a pole to a great height, stand atop it and then leap off--albeit while firmly strapped into a safety harness.

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