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1. That sure whets your appetite for a film like Darwaza Bandh Rakho, which promises to be a laughathon.
2. The assumption is that capitalism brings, because it requires, an ethic of trust and the rule of law in the form of promise–keeping (contracts). Also, the protection of private property gives individuals a sphere of sovereignty and whets their appetites for a politics of popular sovereignty.
3. In the remaining months before the presidential election, Putin will watch to see whether being a potential presidential successor makes Zubkov‘s head spin and whether his political rise whets his appetite for more power –– more than it would if Sergei Ivanov were in this spot.
4. Right from the start of the film (Hrithik‘s first heist in Namibia; the robbing of a crown from a moving train) to his next target (robbing a precious diamond from a museum in Mumbai) to the theft in Jamnagar (Hrithik and Ash come face to face for the first time), the film whets your appetite from the word ‘Go‘. If the first hour focuses on the cat–n–mouse game, the second hour changes tracks as it transforms into a love story.
5. Almost all the Arabic newspapers ran banner headlines with heart–rending photographs of the victims of the Israeli bombardment. «Lebanon in Flames,» screamed Okaz Arabic daily, «Israel Strangles Lebanon,» reported Al–Jazirah. «Israel Tightens Siege of Lebanon,» said Asharq Al–Awsat, which also highlighted a statement by the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt blasting Hezbollah for escalating tensions in the region. «Hezbollah Operation Whets Israeli Appetite for War, Hostilities,» wrote Al–Eqtisadiah.