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During the banking crisis of 1992, Sweden forced its banks to write down all of its toxic assets, took an equity stake in a handful of the largest banks at the cost of their shareholders, and eventually resold the healthy assets on the public market. Since the government held the...
Of course, Slumdog Millionaire is not the first to discover this other, more complicated India, as the film's critics correctly point out. It's real for the hundreds of millions of Indians who live in it, the thousands of social workers, nonprofit groups and civil servants who are trying...
Pakistan's domestic militants have faced a four-pronged assault since last summer, with counterinsurgency campaigns by Pakistani troops in Swat, Bajaur and the town of Dara Adam Khel - home to a notorious militant arms industry - along with stepped-up CIA-directed missile strikes from pilotless drone aircraft. The seriousness...
On Friday night, local Republicans lavished Steele with praise. "He's smart, he's sophisticated, he has vision," says Dan Cronin, a state legislator and chair of the county's Republican Party. Tall and a bit brawny, Steele took the dais, dressed in a gray suit and a pink tie...
However, Iman, the woman sitting next to me, nervously pressed her face to the window and confessed that she was scared - not so much of the flight, she said, as just coming to Baghdad. She was Kuwaiti, she explained, and had not been to Baghdad in 20 years. She had...