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...shows just how much control the Maoists have in India's neglected heartland. After weeks of negotiating, I received word from a senior commander there that cadres from the area would escort a photographer and me into the field to meet a rebel unit. After an early morning, two-hour motorbike ride along dirt roads south of the town of Dantewada, across rivers where women beat their clothes against rocks and through villages full of thatched and terracotta-roofed huts, scrawny chickens and children with distended bellies (a classic sign of malnutrition), we set off by foot deep into...
Iceland gets some support for its conspiracy theory from Richard Portes, an economist at the London Business School. In March, after he published a favorable report on Iceland's economy, Portes says a senior figure at a major hedge fund phoned him. "He spent half an hour trying to tell me the Icelandic banks were in terrible shape and that the country was a disaster area," he recalls. "Apparently I was risking my reputation by saying anything different." But not everyone responds to Iceland's plight with sympathy. Eileen Zhang, an Iceland expert at ratings agency Standard and Poor...
...huge automobile ferry had left its home port in Tallinn, Estonia, on a routine 15-hour trip to Stockholm. Although the weather had been stormy all night, the crew did not expect serious problems. A band was playing in the Baltic Bar, and the 10-deck vessel churned through the inky waters as it had for 14 years...
...hoped that even at the 11th hour and 59th minute, we could come up with an alternative.' OSBY DAVIS, mayor of Vallejo, Calif., announcing that the city had filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection following a $16 million budget shortfall. The San Francisco suburb, with nearly 120,000 residents, is the largest city in the state to declare bankruptcy...
...separate Obama campaign conference call an hour later, one reporter asked David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, why Obama shouldn't be magnanimous, since he can afford to allow both delegations to be seated and still win the nomination, given his large lead in delegates -including superdelegates, those party VIPs and elected officials who get their own convention votes and can endorse whomever they please. Obama leads Clinton in superdelegates...