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But in stark contrast, the second most popular was a controversial view of modern America - USA 2008: The Great Depression, looking at this year as the country's second great depression. Mirrored by another on being Down and out in Las Vegas. Neither of which matched the horror of the earthquake in Beichuan: a vision of hell.
Rather more romance was to be found in your reading of the tale of a man who found out that his lover was a killer (I fell in love with a female assassin) - less so in the Fury at $2.5bn bonus for Lehman's New York staff, the bonus culture outlasting even its collapse. Stories of oil and riches appeared with the Saudis promising We will pump more oil, while Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control were also revealed.
Mandela's 80th birthday party and The Independent's successful campaign which finished with Pervez death sentence quashed by Afghan court, a happy ending for Sayed Pervez Kambaksh at least.