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There may also be political reasons for this unexpected turn. When the crisis intensified in mid-September, Washington acted quickly. There was a Treasury Secretary to devise and present a rescue plan, and a Congress - after an initial case of the vapors - to act on it. But there is no Hank Paulson in Europe, nor a precise counterpart to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Jean-Claude Trichet heads the European Central Bank, but it cannot play the lender of last resort, as the Fed did on Sept. 16 by loaning $85 billion to prop up the U.S. insurance giant...
States are mandated to create majority-minority districts under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The legislation was enacted to ensure that minorities could exert real electoral influence and be represented by members of their racial or ethnic group...
...friend, David Gerken, who last spoke to Rajaram 18 months ago, says Rajaram took his career and family very seriously and wanted to do right by them. Perhaps it was this self-induced pressure that proved to be too much, warping his perspective and making his final violent act seem justifiable. "The last time I spoke with him, he had been out of work for a while. He was concerned about how the situation was impacting his family but seemed to be taking things in stride," says Gerken. "There was no indication of how serious it was or any suggestion...
...Operation Leopard succeeds, then, by simply depositing officers in a trouble area, and letting their presence act as a deterrent. By the end of the night of TIME's visit, no crimes had been reported on the Craylands Estate. As one officers said later over a cup of tea back at the station: "They see that we are out in force and so they hide in their home. You can dress up what we do with fancy operational names, but it's just policing - you put bobbies on the street, and crime goes down. It ain't rocket science...
...reserve requirement ratio for most banks. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong's de facto central bank, also reduced the interest rate at which it lends to banks by a full percentage point in an attempt to ease credit markets. In India, policymakers promised to continue to act to keep the financial sector functioning. "If need be, we will take further measures to infuse liquidity in the market," India's Finance Minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, told reporters...