It seems that 2011 has become the year of living dangerously (for the government) and discontentedly (for the public), as rising inflation adds to the pain of Mr Osborne's austerity programme.

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More recently, the attempted 1965 coup that backfired and eventually brought President Suharto to power came to the attention of Hollywood via Christopher Koch's The Year of Living Dangerously.

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