Weakening Lebanon has also made it more difficult to rein in Hezbollah.

This time, the king could not restrain his councilors, and the queen was condemned to death.

In other words, the challenge is to revive lending growth in full awareness that we must begin devising ways to rein it in.

I agree, but reining it in will be difficult as long as the universities and too big to fail banks remain so intertwined.

Substantial achievements in bringing awareness of corruption in the society, and therefore curbing it, can be attributed to a large degree to a viable civil society, including an independent media.