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...line with their goals. "You can have an extremely negative view of the economy and use that to say, 'I am not going to go anywhere close to consumer discretionary stocks,'" says McManus. He'd opt for consumer staples instead, as well as health care, utilities and perhaps some beaten-down market sectors such as energy...
...global economy. The scramble to avert meltdown drove Labour rebels into retreat, halved the Tory lead and granted Brown more than just a reprieve from domestic woes. As Congress bickered over the U.S. bailout and European leaders vacillated between a unified response and defending national interests, the old, beaten Brown shuffled off stage. Into the limelight stepped New Brown, pitch-perfect in his Churchillian gravitas, a crisis leader for Britain and the world...
...provide the next generation with accurate information about that period in history. “The cruelties I experienced and heard remain in my memory,” Xing said in an interview through an interpreter. In one particularly graphic scene, a woman describes finding her headmaster disemboweled and beaten to death behind the schoolhouse. Later in the film, a man recounts his mother’s shooting, using his own chest to trace the path the bullet took. Merle Goldman, a professor emerita at Boston University and a research associate at the Fairbank Center, said she sponsored the viewing...
...captain, Chris Clayton, played at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American Championship in Tulsa, Okla., while the rest of the team traveled to South Bend, Ind. to play in Notre Dame’s Tom Fallon Invitational. It was a frustrating long weekend for Clayton, who, having beaten the nation’s No. 17 player in mid-September, came in with high expectations for success against his elite competition. “I had one of those days where just nothing was going right,” Clayton said of his 6-2, 6-0 loss to eventual quarterfinalist...
...Brown didn't mince words. "This is not a time for conventional thinking or outdated dogma but for the fresh and innovative intervention that gets to the heart of the problem," he said. The big yawn with which global stock markets greeted the move said it all: given the beaten-down state of the financial system and the questions that continue to swirl around it, far more concerted action is needed if confidence is to be restored...