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...open market today - most major financial institutions in the U.S. would be determined insolvent and due for government takeover. But that isn't the standard by which banks are judged. If it were, most of the country's big banks would have been nationalized in the early 1990s...
...down their weapons," Mohammed says of the local Taliban. "We are hopeful that they won't turn us down." Mohammed's credibility with the militants is based on the fact that he waged his own violent campaign for Shari'a law in the area in the mid-1990s; he also fought alongside the Taliban when U.S. forces invaded in 2001. Even though he has renounced violence, Mohammed still denounces democracy as a "heresy." Now he must convince the man who has stolen his thunder - Maulana Fazlullah, whose forces control 80% of the area after a fierce two-year conflict with...
...York, was a godsend. The man announced on Monday to lead the archdiocese arrives well equipped for the job. Timothy Dolan, 59, who has been in charge of the Milwaukee Archdiocese since 2002, has long been considered among the most likable and loquacious senior American prelates. In the late 1990s, while serving as rector of the Pontifical North American College, the largest English-speaking seminary in Rome, he was a major man about town and go-to guy for U.S. journalists covering the Vatican, at ease sharing a beer or providing simple words to explain complicated Church doctrine...
Argentina has a recent history of anti-Semitism as well. More than 100 persons were murdered in two terrorist bombings that leveled the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA Jewish community center in downtown Buenos Aires in the 1990s, crimes that remain unresolved by the courts to this day and that sometimes are blamed on Middle Eastern terrorists. But in recent months a wave of marches by hooded demonstrators outside the homes of Jewish citizens and calls for the boycotting of Jewish stores in some provincial cities, in response to the incidents in Gaza, have set off alarm bells ringing...
...opportunity to share their art and provides them with instantaneous contact with audiences.HARVARD STREETThere were 275 licensed street performers in Cambridge last year, according to Julie Madden, Director of Community Arts at the Cambridge Arts Council (CAC). The CAC gained jurisdiction over the street performing scene in the mid-1990s, making Cambridge one of few cities to have a formal street performer program; even though the city of Boston now permits street performing, there is no established organization that oversees the newly legal practice. For the price of $40 and the time it takes to complete a short application, almost...