This week we've heard all about Jack Straw's personal assault on crime.

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Instead, the evidence instead suggests (to put it mildly) that most of us are running into money difficulties because of the sustained assault on our personal finances since the late 1970s.

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One poet described his poetic vocation as a violent assault: his personal jinni had appeared to him without any warning, thrown him to the ground and forced the verses from his mouth.1 So, when Muhammad heard the curt command "Recite!"

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