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...Read "Is There a Cause for Fear of Flying...
...package leads off with the historian David M. Kennedy--whose book about the Depression, Freedom from Fear, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000--revealing how F.D.R., like Obama, saw crisis as opportunity. Next up is Adam Cohen's illuminating piece on the dynamic launch of the Roosevelt Administration. Cohen is the author of Nothing to Fear, an account of F.D.R.'s first 100 days. To get a free-marketeer's dissenting take on F.D.R.'s policies, we turned to Amity Shlaes, whose recent book The Forgotten Man argues that the New Deal not only failed to reverse the Great Depression...
...Ahsan Iqbal, spokesman for the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz argues that "instead of the U.N., it would have been better if the inquiry had been done by a national institution. Now that we have an independent judiciary, that would have been possible. Or, if the government feared the matter getting politicized, it could have been held by a bipartisan parliamentary committee." But U.N. ambassador Haroon counters that the demand for the U.N. inquiry emerged out of a parliamentary resolution. Another government official adds the argument that a U.N. inquiry will be completed even if the current government is overthrown...
...deeper fear is that the U.N. inquiry may fail to produce results. Both of Bhutto's brothers, Shahnawaz and Murtaza, were killed years earlier in circumstances that remain disputed. Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the dictator who had her father executed and against whom she vigorously battled, was killed in an as-yet unexplained mid-air explosion. And Liaquat Bagh, the park in Rawalpindi where Bhutto had been speaking moments before the assassins struck, is named after Pakistan's first prime minister who was killed there in chillingly similar circumstances to those Bhutto's murder. This time, Pakistanis hope they...
...Until now, major oil companies such as Chevron and ExxonMobil have stayed out of investing in the Kurdish zone for fear that investing there might prompt Baghdad to blacklist them from bidding for the far larger fields down South. But those fears have diminished as the stalemate in parliament over oil has dragged on. Big Oil might also be emboldened to make deals on oil fields in the Kurdish areas since last week, when the Chinese oil giant Sinopec announced that it was acquiring the Swiss oil company Addax Petroleum, which operates in Iraqi Kurdistan. "It will be much more...