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...Afghanistan is not going well. But don't take our word for it. "We're not going to win this war," rues Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top commander in Afghanistan. The current strategy is "doomed to fail," says the British ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles. The latest U.S. National Intelligence Estimate notes that the country is in a "downward spiral." Since May, some 180 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan, compared with 120 in Iraq. On Oct. 14, four more NATO soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb...
...Capital Management Group, which became one of the first hedge-fund companies to go public last November, recently reported that its Asia fund had fallen nearly 17% for the year. Even the fund of David Einhorn, who was one of the first to publicly say that Lehman Brothers could fail, is off nearly 13% this year. Also in the red are the funds of such well-known investors as Julian Robertson and Steven Cohen...
...have yet to find your classroom in Lowell. You go every day, fail to find it, and end up just eating lunch at the dining hall instead...
...well and how quickly the new programs translate into confidence - meaning renewed lending by and among banks - will determine how badly the real economy is hit: how many people will lose their jobs, how many businesses will close, how many banks will fail. Everyone from Paulson on down acknowledges that those numbers will rise dramatically in the coming months. But the latest plan is meant to lessen the impact. As Paulson said this morning, "Today's actions are not what we ever wanted to do, but today's actions are what we must do to restore confidence in our financial...
...only way out: you have choices.” The latter statement links to a manual describing how to legally force the biological father into fulfilling his child support duties, and how to utilize financial assistance programs such as Medicaid and subsidized housing. These proposed solutions fail to seriously address the root economic and social reasons that lead women to seek abortions. Advising an impoverished teenage mothers to procure food stamps merely places a Band-Aid on a gaping wound...