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...sell-off will end eventually, one way or another. Governments could follow the nerve-racked Russians and suspend trading altogether, in a bid, as Touati says, to stop "markets from sawing off the branch they're sitting on." The more likely solution, Touati predicts, will soon come as "smart and steely investors realize selling now is a sure way to lose, while buying now will determine who the big winners tomorrow will...
Give the Robertses credit. They're staying in the game at a moment when Time Warner is spinning off its 15 million cable subscribers. Since its failed bid for the Walt Disney Co. in 2004, Comcast has returned to its roots as a program distributor, smartly upgrading its cable systems so it can offer hundreds of digital channels as well as high-def TV, video on demand, and broadband and telephone service. The company is also shelling out $1 billion--along with other companies like Time Warner Cable, Google and Intel--to fund a wireless Internet venture formed by Sprint...
...nver said. “We came up with college bowls because there is a matching system in place, even though we wouldn’t consider this to be a normal market.” According to Roth, prior to 1992, teams would get bowl bids before the season was over, thus resulting in inefficient matchups. “Lots of markets unravel over time, with participants making moves too early,” Roth said. “For example, the Sugar Bowl would offer a bid to a top-ranked team that has four games left...
Corsi claims that Obama has strong ties to Odinga, whom the author says fomented Kenya's postelection violence last January in a bid to secure the presidency after the results declared incumbent President Mwai Kibaki the winner. In fact, independent observers disputed Kibaki's victory, and a commission looking into the vote recently determined that Kenya would never know if Odinga or Kibaki truly won. In his writings, Corsi has sought to link the Luos - the tribe of Odinga, as well as Obama's ancestors - with Muslims and to pit both of them against Kikuyus, the tribe of Kibaki...
...inclusion of the 'philanthropic' [tour] in Corsi's programme is seen in bad taste and an extension of the campaign to undermine Obama's bid to become the first black American president," the Standard said. In an interview with TIME last week, Obama's half-sister Auma called Corsi's book "blatant lies." "It's reached a point where people will write what they write and people will assume what they want to assume and interpret things the way they want to interpret them, and you can't chase everybody," Auma Obama said. "Otherwise you stop living your own life...