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...some industry-focused funds, or ETFs, to invest in? Well, maybe not. Keep in mind that you still have the daunting task of picking the right industries. What might be a sounder strategy, if you aren't satisfied with broad-based mutual funds and insist on playing games in the stock market, is finding stocks that haven't been tracking their industries quite so closely. There you've got more of a chance of the market valuing your stock based on the actual value of your stock. And that, for a stock picker...
...life: there was no obvious security at last week's event. But that experience allowed him to make a strong indirect point in favor of the new Institute. Conservative clerics and talk show hosts have complained bitterly at the way that secular universities treat religion - sometimes justifiably. When scholars insist on seeing faith as a brute exercise in authoritarianism they are being almost as reductive as religious fundamentalists. But at its best, secular religious study continues to offer a freedom that institutions entrenched firmly in one or another faith tradition can simply not afford...
...Satanic Verses' willing creation of a fiction around precisely that historical process. But in some ways historical research is more threatening than invention. "There is so much contemporary scholarship about the origins of Islam," Rushdie said, pointing out that Mohammed lived well within the historical era. "If you insist that the text is the uncreated word of God, then the social and economic conditions of the Arabian peninsula in the seventh century are unimportant, because God works on a broader canvas than that. If, however, you are willing to look at the text as an event inside the history...
Striped Pajamas, written and directed by Mark Herman, requires everyone in it to remain unconscious to every clue - and there are many - about what is happening in the family's backyard. Even when the gas chambers are fired up, smoke blackening the sky and stench filling their nostrils, they insist the camp is just burning some old clothes. The largest silence is Shmuel's, who never forthrightly explains his desperate circumstances to Bruno. Maybe he doesn't want to shock his new friend. More likely his true imprisonment is in the desperate manipulations of this movie, its need to keep...
Dubai officials insist that they can meet their debt obligations for the next two years. But the credit squeeze clearly compounds some growing challenges to Dubai's revenue streams. The most obvious of these is the plummeting price of oil, from $147 to less than $65 per bbl. since July, rendering regional investors increasingly cautious as they dial down their expectations of untold wealth. And a global recession is likely to tighten the belts of the foreign investors and vacationers who have driven demand for Dubai's real estate and tourism developments...