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...undefined suspicions of misconduct, has organized a public address and rally today in Rawalpindi, not far from the capital Islamabad, to prove to his people, and the world, that he still has the support of a large section of the country's population. Today's rally was expected to attract many more participants than yesterday's protest in Islamabad that was organized by a consortium of opposition parties and attended by several thousand. However turnout at yesterday's event would have been much higher, some attendees argue, if more than 100 opposition organizers hadn't been preemptively detained and kept...
What happened? Declining global interest rates left investors searching for anything that would pay higher yields. Eager to oblige, Wall Street investment bankers devised ever cleverer ways to package ever riskier loans into high-yield securities. And mortgage lenders came up with ever more creative loan terms to attract customers. This lured "unsophisticated borrowers who had difficulty fully understanding how these products would affect them when interest rates rose and housing prices edged off," says Eugene Ludwig, a former top banking regulator who now runs Promontory Financial Group...
...kingfisher?" His notepad, it turned out, held not only my order for kurrukan roti and chicken curry, but also page upon page of bird species. There's a resident naturalist, too, who monitors the growing numbers of birds, fish and animals. "We're hoping to attract fishing cats," he confided eagerly, "and more black bitterns and rusty-spotted cats...
...majority of expatriate Poles expect to go home within two years--if they can. True, Poland's economy is growing at a healthy 5.9% clip, but its unemployment rate, at 15%, is the worst in the E.U. A stolid business culture does little to attract the brightest and best to the jobs that are available. Experts such as Ryszard Petru, chief economist at Bank BPH, and Witold Orlowski, ex--economic adviser to former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, say the government should cut hiring costs, taxes and social spending. "Whether we will be the second Ireland or the Third World depends...
Scott B. Silverman, a freshman, said that he was excited to attend the lecture and that "anything controversial will attract students...