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...Paris Investment Agency, looks at what's happening in world financial markets and says: "The economy of Paris will resist the shock better than London. We're more diversified." And in Brussels, at the European Trade Union Institute, economist Andrew Watt draws some uncomfortable historical parallels. "There was some idea that the financial sector was immune," he says. "It's like pinning your hopes on anything, whether it's textiles in the north of England or the car industry around Birmingham. It expands for a while and then it takes a nasty knock...
...Free: The Nina Simone Story Nina Simone; RCA Legacy; out now In 1956 a nightclub boss told the Juilliard pianist he'd hire her if she'd also sing. Smart idea. As this must-buy-now four-disc career set proves, Simone's reedy, dramatic alto made her a peerless interpreter of Gershwin, Brel, Dylan, the Bee Gees and herself (the scathing Mississippi Goddam). Warning: Contents are emotionally draining. Also life-enhancing...
...their decisions. Jackson explains that most voters rely on their emotions and that as many as 28% of voters pick the candidate who does not share their policy goals. He also reveals that the "swing voter" is a psychological phenomenon that cuts across all demographic boundaries, debunking the idea that any one voting bloc has the power to turn the election. And finally, look for the divine Elizabeth Gilbert--author of Eat, Pray, Love--on the back page writing movingly about the political battle in her own family...
...cell. Ferris makes use of locals to sleuth out information. But he and Hoffman have a bigger, wilder plan. The notion is to plant incriminating data on a plausible corpse and create a fictional CIA spy who the terrorists will believe has penetrated their ring. (British intelligence hatched this idea in 1943 for an anti-Germany caper that was memorialized in the book and movie The Man Who Never Was.) It's up to Ferris to use the charade to draw out an insurgent leader who is as elusive as he is deadly...
...Rudy Giuliani mentioned it in his convention speech. So has Rush Limbaugh, along with several national conservative columnists. Ever since the primaries, Obama's detractors have tried to depict him less as threatening to white America than as distant from America itself. This wasn't a solely Republican idea. In March of last year, Democratic campaign guru Mark Penn urged Hillary Clinton to exploit Obama's "lack of American roots" and "limited" connection to "basic American values and culture." Clinton, he advised, should add the tagline American to everything she did. Fox News and its friends spent most...