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...Saigon Securities Inc., the country's largest brokerage, estimates that at least 500,000 Vietnamese are participating (five times the number of accounts on the two official bourses), aided by more than a dozen private websites and online forums with names like mua re (street trading) and Sanotc.com. The latter, founded in July in Hanoi, has 18,000 registered users and is currently adding 300 more each day, says co-founder Hoang Minh Son. "Before the websites, people had to go to the official market," says Son, 25. "But people find our process quick and easy...
...them. People may assume he's playing some sort of Iraq game too. There is a difference between flip-flopping and admitting a mistake. You flip-flop for political advantage. You admit a mistake despite the political peril. McCain did the former; Clinton won't do the latter. Go figure...
...record’s for you. “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone” is a great album to relax to, and transports the listener into a much less complicated world of tranquil musicality. It will also be released in two-disc format, with the latter disc providing remixes of the songs by a number of semi-famous artists, such as Jesu and Paper Chase. Having not heard the remix disc, I can’t say whether it will promote the same sense of psychedelic euphoria when combined with illegal substances. But the un-remixed...
...latter problem seemed to have been slightly defused Monday with the resignation of Foreign Minister Maria Consuelo Araujo. But not before the spectacle of seeing her brother Sen. Alvaro Araujo charged not only with collusion with the para warlord who controlled his home region, but also with participating in the kidnapping of a rival politician. When Sen. Araujo was called in for questioning last fall, local pundits had called for Minister Araujo's resignation. But Uribe said he refused to "sacrifice" his foreign minister because of the possible misdeeds of her brother. Nevertheless, after the senator's arrest...
...Engel wonders why Frank sprang into action in April 1941. After all, the Nazis had occupied the Netherlands since May 1940. Did the situation suddenly turn more desperate for Jews there, or did Otto Frank sense personal danger? Engel suspects the latter, referring to a theory first raised in Carol Ann Lee's 2003 book, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, which reported that a member of a Dutch pro-Nazi party was blackmailing Frank. After Otto was heard making a remark showing skepticism of prompt German victory, on April 18 the blackmailer requested a payoff. Twelve days later Frank...