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...points hastily interwoven. But I've come to think that it is faithful to its essential purpose, which is to disprove the Tolstoyan dictum that unhappy families are each miserable in their own way. We do see something instructive about ourselves in this melodramatically grumbling group. We also appreciate anew that there is nothing like a nice French meal to steady our nerves and serve as the precondition for achieving at least a provisional resolution of our troubles...
...Thursday brought dreaded confirmation that markets look set to remain in tank mode until they find reason for taking heart anew. In addition to the 11.4% slump of Nikkei - its biggest single-day drop since the October, 1987 crash - trading Thursday elsewhere in Asia pushed Hong Kong's Hang Seng down 4.8%, South Korea's down 9.44%, and Singapore Straights Times Index down 5.5%. Europe faired no better, with London's FTSE 100 and Paris' CAC 40 indices reflecting mid-morning declines of nearing 2.5%, and Frankfurt's Dax off 1.3%. Market commentators warned that trading could see-saw throughout...
Chicago Cubs •talent for choking of is demonstrated anew...
...President joined Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to ask Americans to trust them with a $700 billion Wall Street rescue package. But the well of trust had long run dry. Outraged calls overwhelmed Capitol Hill switchboards, and on Sept. 29 the bailout failed in the House, panicking the markets anew. Washington is still likely to find a fix for the credit crisis, but after a series of corruption scandals and a longer series of gaps between deeds and words, its own credibility crisis might take longer to repair...
...Piracy declined in subsequent centuries, thanks to increasingly vigilant militaries and the development of the steam engine. But amid a drop in naval patrols and a boom in international trade following the end of the Cold War, it has flourished anew - particularly in narrow choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007 - 28% of which occurred in the treacherous waters off Nigeria and Somalia, where vast coastlines...