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...Amid the mounting financial crisis and growing worries about the economy, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is making gains in the key swing states of Colorado, Michigan and Pennsylvania, while his Republican rival John McCain is holding his own in Montana and West Virginia, according to a new TIME/CNN poll, conducted by Opinion Research Corp...
Previous governments failed to prosecute suspected war criminals; others, amid a tangled mess of loyalties in the aftermath of the war, pardoned dozens of Pakistani officers. To this day, the war casts a deeply polarizing shadow, with many still suspected of having collaborated with West Pakistan's suppression of the East. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, Ali Ahsan Mojaheed, general secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a powerful political party that sided with Pakistan in 1971, thinks it's better to close the book on a tragic chapter in history rather than risk opening old wounds...
...speculations about the nature of time. The incest part might have been a little weird. But Faulkner, like other writers, had a point about the indissoluble link between beauty and death, a theme that turned over eternally in his characters’ minds, and an ache that has vanished amid smaller ones for many of today’s undergraduates...
Though Harvard’s endowment has posted strong returns amid the global financial crisis, the University’s finances may still be affected by the frozen credit markets. Harvard had issued more than $1.5 billion in variable-rate bonds as of the end of the 2007 fiscal year, according to the University’s annual financial report. These bonds have the potential to become costly for the University because of their volatility in the current turmoil. Interest rates on variable-rate bonds have soared as investors demand higher rates of return on these securities in the face...
...much-awaited public inquiry into the shooting death of an innocent man mistaken for a suicide bomber opened in London this morning amid high security, protests and calls for the police commissioner to resign...