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...meantime, there are more immediate economic minefields to navigate. Inflation, for example, is surging in cities like Doha and Dubai, driving up the price of everything from food to office space. Nobody is hurt more than the Gulf's millions of ill-paid migrant workers, and this exacerbates the danger of growing labor unrest. One measure that Gulf countries are considering to dampen inflation: a dismantling of the peg that ties their currencies to the beleaguered U.S. dollar...
Obama still can't totally shake Clinton, and the flap over her Robert F. Kennedy comment ensures further intraparty strife. But some Republicans see McCain as ill-defined to voters and slipping in the polls, even before Obama's likely victory-lap bump...
...report from the nonprofit Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute--despite a 1994 law that prohibits doing so. While supporters of the Multiethnic Placement Act say attempting to match black children with black parents lengthens the time kids spend in foster care, the report argues that white parents are often ill-prepared to handle race-specific identity issues. It recommends race-related training for white parents as well as a drive to get more black parents to adopt...
...airport Marine barracks in the '80s. The U.S. must display respect for the leaders of all other countries and parties, friend or foe, and stop calling our enemies names to please the crowds. The U.S. is losing because, instead of playing to win, we are playing to the ill-informed media audience at home. David P. Vernon, TUCSON, ARIZ...
...police appear to have bungled the investigation from the start. Shortly after discovering Aarushi's body, the police declared that Hemraj, who was missing and presumed to have fled, was the killer. (Murders and robberies by domestic workers are increasingly common in and around New Delhi; this month alone, ill-paid, ill-treated or thieving servants have been accused in five murder cases in the capital.) However, when a friend of the Talwar family, a former cop, came to offer condolences the following morning, he suggested making a more thorough search of the house. It was only then that...