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...same time that Western economic problems have pushed down the price of oil from its high of $145 a barrel in July to just under $100 a barrel on Monday. On Monday, Saudi Arabia's Tadawul exchange - the largest in the Arab world - dropped 6.5%, bringing this year's loss...
...thing over and over, it is almost as if he is trying to convince himself that he will always put country before self. His life story should be enough evidence of this, considering the number of years he has given to the service of his country at great personal loss. It can be easily argued that America is strongest when its economy is at its best, so the candidate would do well to dwell more on fixing the economy, providing jobs and research and development which have made America so strong, and downplay the macho America which only alienates...
...example, I met one Srebrenica victim who seemed almost staid about her traumas, as if the loss of her husbands and sons was just a bad memory, like a bad grade on a test. This woman could not speak English, and of course I did not speak BCS (Bosnian, Croat, Serbian), so we greeted each other with “As-Salamu Alaykum” (Peace be upon you). She pointed to her T-shirt, which indicated that she was in the “Mothers of Srebrenica” group, and when I looked at her again I could...
...Obviously, Professor Matory will be a huge loss to our department,” she wrote in an e-mailed statement. “His research and teaching cover Africa and the Americas. This level of breadth will be hard to duplicate, if not impossible...
...supply of workers to keep Social Security solvent and the economy growing. Without immigrants, the United States would be in the same position as Japan, Italy, and Russia, whose populations are shrinking. The aging workforces, sclerotic economies, and massive public debts of these countries are strongly related to their loss of population.Furthermore, highly educated immigrants bring technological prowess and entrepreneurship to the United States. Thousands of engineers and computer scientists arrive in America yearly to fuel high-tech businesses. Silicon Valley is filled with startups founded by immigrants, like Vinod Khosla’s Sun Microsystems and Sergey Brin?...