[00:01]thumb

[00:02]It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA

[00:07]cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers

[00:12]thumb through their phone directories.

[00:16]numb

[00:17]Perhaps I am merely numb at the image of our former

[00:20]Labour prime minister as grinning ambassador for another

[00:24]LVMH company - De Beers diamonds - which was

[00:28]implicated by the UN in the diamond wars in the Congo.

[00:33]dwarf

[00:35]According to Time magazine this would dwarf both

[00:38]the amount Goldman executives gave to charities in 2008

[00:43]($130m) and the amount residing in its own charitable

[00:47]foundation ($200m).

[00:51]Wharf

[00:53]In November, Roy Jhuboo told Amateur Photographer

[00:57]magazine how a squad of officers arrived in two police

[01:01]vans and swooped on him while he was taking pictures of

[01:06]Canary Wharf in the London Docklands.

[01:12]endow

[01:14]Carver once said it was possible "to write about

[01:17]commonplace things and objects using commonplace

[01:20]but precise language and endow those things - a chair,

[01:24]a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring -

[01:29]with immense, even startling power" .

[01:34]widow

[01:36]Ozu brought his delicate minimalist technique to

[01:40]bear on the story of three middle-aged businessmen

[01:44]matchmaking for the widow and daughter of their closest friend.

[01:50]sovereign

[01:52]What they have in common are governments that lack

[01:55]the capacity, the will, or both to rule. They are unable to

[01:59]exercise what is expected of sovereign governments-

[02:02]namely, control over what goes on within their own territory.