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...person to emerge stronger from the mess was Ian Paisley, the fiery, bluff leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, who loathes the peace process as a sellout. The Good Friday agreement was supposed to make Paisley, 77, yesterday's man; last week's antics may make him the power broker for a new administration and doom any future agreement between republicans and unionists. "We're coming back to the struggle between pure unionism and republicans," Paisley thundered to TIME. "The election will be a turning point. Republicans have to learn they're not going to win." The British and Irish...
...nuclear issue, of course, is only one of a number of delicate matters currently on the table among those trying to broker understandings between Washington and Tehran. One key issue is the fate of a number of key al-Qaeda personnel currently in the hands of the Iranian authorities; another is Iraq, where the ability of the occupation forces to manage the increasingly restive Shiite population may depend in substantial part in securing tacit Iranian consent for the U.S.-authored transition process. Progress on the nuclear issue will certainly help the two sides reach understandings on the other questions...
Before signing any kind of recording contract, though, the up-and-coming crooner studied econometrics and mathematical economics at some of the world’s most prestigious universities. She went on to work as a broker and investment banker...
Since Reagan left office, there has been an abiding frustration among his most loyal supporters that he was seen, as Democratic power broker Clark Clifford described him, as "an amiable dunce." These letters, compiled with the help of two of his aides and approved by his wife, are published in part to polish Reagan's image in the twilight of his life. (Reagan, 92, suffers from Alzheimer's disease and made his last public statement in a farewell letter in 1994.) That helps explain why this Life in Letters has its gaps. There is little here about his mother Nelle...
...heart of the Spitzer probe are two practices that, by some estimates, collectively bilk fund investors out of as much as $4 billion a year. One is late trading, which is illegal. Spitzer brought grand-larceny and securities-fraud charges against Theodore Sihpol III, a former broker at Bank of America, alleging that Sihpol helped Canary Partners, a hedge fund, place orders to buy and sell Nations Funds shares as late as 6:30 p.m. at the funds' 4 p.m. (closing) price. The scheme allowed Canary, which has settled its case with Spitzer for $40 million, to profit from intervening...