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Even though the bankers are first up, the FCIC won't stop there in heaping the blame. Congress set up the commission early last year with a mandate to investigate 22 possible things, from mortgage fraud to global savings imbalances, that could have either caused the financial crisis or made...
The volume commemorates a recent exhibition of the same name at the Asia Society in New York City, and includes the work of 15 artists born from 1941 to 1981 - years when the democratic ideals of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first leader, slowly warped into Islamic nationalism and, later...
Diminutive in the imposing vastness of her office, Angela Merkel appears surprisingly frail for someone who's spent the past 20 years upending political norms. Now 55, Merkel, Germany's first Chancellor raised in the communist East, is the head of a democratic form of government and the guardian of...
Paradoxically, Merkel's life under communism may have helped when it came to starting a political career as the Iron Curtain began to crumble. She knew how to navigate around blockages and when to keep a low profile. Her rise to prominence went all but unnoticed, except by the rivals...
Aides say the governor does not want his legacy to include a dismantling of the world's most acclaimed public-university system. Students and faculty, enraged at dramatic tuition increases and crowded classes, are near revolt, and the governor knows anger toward the UC regents and University of California President...