A year later, Ejiofor was slogging through David Mamet's karate movie Redbelt ("a film with a black belt in pomposity," wrote the Guardian) and after that Roland Emmerich's puddle-deep disaster flick 2012.
Never mind that the Congressional Budget Office found that the stimulus staved off an even deeper disaster.
And there's no way we can just pull out without plunging the country, the region, and possibly beyond into still deeper disaster".
Bea has worked on several investigations of major disasters, and led an independent investigation of the Deep Horizon disaster.
11.47am: It's matinee time again here at the Guardian; join us from noon for an upsetting tale of deep sea disaster.
The people involved from the private sector are about the only ones who can respond to this deep water disaster.
As the commission co-chairman, Bob Graham, noted, without dramatic action another deep-water disaster will inevitably occur, leaving the public to "wonder why Congress, the administration and industry stood by and did nothing".
In the wake of Deepwater Horizon, Congress and the Obama administration will no doubt be tempted to pass laws meant to reduce the risks of another deep-water disaster.
Under current conditions, however, caution is risky, because big changes for the worse are already happening, and any delay in acting raises the chance of a deeper economic disaster.
In the many parts of Asia where anti-Japanese sentiment runs deep, the disasters may even mark a turning-point in attitudes, bringing a new respect and warmth to perceptions of Japan.Hostility towards the country in what bankers call "ex-Japan Asia" has fluctuated, and, especially in China, has at times been manipulated by governments.
In a land of hardship and resignation and deep faith, the disaster along the Shatt al Arab appears to some as the work of a higher power.
