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Looking at your career in general, you've done pretty varied kinds of work. Have you developed a rhythm or order for what projects you work on and when...
While some retail credit unions located in frothy real estate regions have suffered - so far this year, 16 have been taken over by the NCUA - they have in general held up better than corporate credit unions. Some of the nation's 28 corporate credit unions moved heavily into securities tied to mortgages, car loans and credit cards. That means they are now racked by the sorts of write-downs plaguing commercial and investment banks...
...There is just too much at stake. Yet this is a crucial moment for car manufacturing, and governments have to ensure that auto giants like GM are aware they have to radically change their ways. Carmakers must be obliged to commit to developing greener technology, while U.S. carmakers in general have to finally realize that the big cars they have been building for decades are no longer what people want. Sebastian Sommer, GREUSSENHEIM, GERMANY...
...Afghan human rights organizations such as Samimi's have documented extortion rackets run by former warlords and militia-run prisons where captives are held for ransom. Afghan journalists covering their crimes have been harassed by police or thrown in jail. Last year Samimi received a phone call from General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a U.S. ally who was appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai as Army Chief of Staff, threatening to have her raped "by 100 men" if she continued investigating a rape case in which he was implicated. Dostum denies ever making such a threat and calls the rape allegation...
...present in 72% of the country - the U.S. and its allies are struggling to find a new strategy to stabilize Afghanistan. President George W. Bush has announced that about 4,500 more soldiers will be sent there early in the new year, but that is a fraction of what General David McKiernan, head of NATO forces in Afghanistan, has said that he needs to successfully conduct the war. Meanwhile, allied forces have been forced to rely on local militia leaders for intelligence gathering, delivery of supplies and to better understand the country's southern tribal networks. In the north, where...