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...Zimbabwe If You Can't Beat 'Em ... After six months of political chaos in a nation facing an acute economic crisis, rivals Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai have reached an agreement to share power. While the terms of the deal are vague, it raises hope for stability in a country where inflation is estimated at more than 11 million percent, half the population is malnourished and 8 out of 10 people are unemployed and live on less than $2 a day. Western economic sanctions on the country remain in place...
...quest to win the presidency in next year's election when a judge--citing a procedural error--dismissed corruption charges against him. Zuma, who wrested control of the African National Congress from President Thabo Mbeki last year, had faced 16 counts stemming from his alleged role in an arms deal...
...Quasi-reality-show star LAUREN CONRAD scores three-book deal for quasi fiction...
...rising unemployment. We do not claim to be economic experts, nor can we point to one cause for or one solution to our current economic crisis. But we do believe that our financial system needs to be changed, and the culture of rampant, unregulated, and inexcusably over-leveraged deal-making needs to be stopped by judicial and measured regulation...
...prominent investment banks became the latest casualties in the financial sector, following in the footsteps of Bear Stearns, which was sold to J.P. Morgan in March in a deal orchestrated—and partially insured—by the Federal Reserve...