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...bane of Wall Street is uncertainty, and the Middle East these days is certainly loaded with that. The worst-case scenario - an all-out war - could be devastating to the oil-dependent global economy, whether from an embargo or merely a disruption of supply. Merely by worrying about this investors are putting a premium on energy prices that could make their other nightmare - a weakling recovery, stunted by inflation and starved for demand - come true in the meantime...
...Americans. Operation Enduring Freedom, he says, is a pretense for manipulating Afghan affairs. In a blink he dismisses the argument that the U.S.-led coalition aims only to eradicate al-Qaeda. "If the Arabs were terrorists, why didn't America just catch them?" he asks, instead of launching ...
...Septembers ago, Social Studies 10 was introduced as, among other things, an all-out assault on Christianity and nine months later it had proven itself to be just that. Though academia may demand skepticism, we are misguided when we impose our principles on other disciplines and suggest that those who believe in anything with the rigid confidence of a tightly folded flag or a crisp salute just have not thought about it hard enough...
...said professional wrestling, you get partial credit. The correct answer, of course, is chess. The governing body of world chess, led by its eccentric president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, has launched an all-out campaign to remake this most elevated of intellectual exercises into a fast-paced, high-stakes spectacle suitable for prime-time television. In the process, Ilyumzhinov is either rescuing chess or dragging it down to the level of Tonya Harding vs. Paula Jones, depending on your point of view. In the highly political, deeply petty world of top-rung chess, nothing is black and white...
...Americans. Operation Enduring Freedom, he says, is a pretense for manipulating Afghan affairs. In a blink he dismisses the argument that the U.S.-led coalition aims only to eradicate al-Qaeda. "If the Arabs were terrorists, why didn't America just catch them?" he asks, instead of launching ...