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...Beijing and Tokyo might lose interest in buying U.S. government bonds, which would speed up the deterioration in the value of the dollar and exert painful pressure on the global economy. "If the U.S. continues with the current fiscal policy, the chance of a dollar crisis is high," says Kenneth Courtis, Tokyo-based vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia. "That would create a lot of turbulence in the region." None of which would be good for the new Administration...
...Bush team, however, is not going out without a fight. In addition to their positive outreach to black ministers, the Republicans have attempted all manner of voter suppression techniques in order to stifle black turnout. Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell (a black man himself) attempted to revive an archaic rule requiring that voter registration cards be printed only on thick, 80-pound paper. People for the American Way, part of a coalition of 60 civil rights organizations, have protested the “unduly burdensome and costly regulation that will…disenfranchise some voters at time...
...targeting aid workers for abduction in recent months and who are now believed to be holding Hassan. "Please, please, I beg of you, the British people, to help me ... I don't want to die like Bigley," she said tearfully in a video released Friday, referring to British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was decapitated by his captors earlier this month. Her heartrending plea may not help her abductors' cause with many Iraqis. "To humiliate a woman like this, especially an Arab woman, is unacceptable," says Saad al-Nasseri, a Baghdad businessman. "Whoever has her will get no sympathy from Iraqi...
...Kenneth M. Goddard, a veterinarian at the Tufts Veterinary Emergency Treatment Services, said yesterday he agreed with the league’s assertion...
...tripped over more bad news and more second guesses, including those from his own team. The military and civilian death toll in Iraq continued to climb, so that the recently optimistic Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi sounded darker about the prospects for stability any time soon. British hostage Kenneth Bigley was beheaded. It emerged that U.S. forces had found floor plans of schools in six American states on a computer disc in Iraq, which launched a round of newscasters interviewing school superintendents from Florida to Oregon about whether a Beslan-style massacre could happen here. Al-Qaeda was thought...