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...They've lost a lot and I think they're just trying to get some back," Conway says, adding it could also be a sign that insiders don't think the market will continue to rally the way it has recently. "It's a good time for anybody who's taken a little bit of a hit in the last two years, even insiders. They're seeing an opportunity here where the market has given them some positive returns and they're going to take advantage of that...
...team played great for the majority of the game,” senior midfielder Desmond Mitchell said. “We controlled the ball for most of the game and we were able to contain Boston to very few chances, while we had a lot of chances ourselves.” On the offensive side, the Crimson’s underclassmen took charge. Freshman Scott Prozeller and sophomore Jamie Rees registered both of the team’s goals, while Akpan assisted both efforts and freshman Brian Rogers added an assist to his résum?...
Afghanistan is replete with grim reminders for those who would wish to rule it. The British were having a marvelous time in Kabul back in 1841: horse races, picnics, amateur theatrics (something British expats indulge in wherever they go) and lot of good grog and food. Meanwhile, the Afghans were seething over these madcap Victorians. (See pictures of election day in Afghanistan...
...fact, it reminds me a lot of how Kabul was when I was last here. The foreigners - diplomats, aid workers, journalists, assorted mercenaries and adventurers - disported themselves quite oblivious to the fact that this was a conservative Muslim country just emerging from the Taliban's medieval totalitarianism. You could find booze in shops. On weekends, you could go picnicking and horseback riding in the country. Many embassies moved into gaudy narco-mansions rented out by warlords loyal to President Hamid Karzai. For dining, you had a choice of Mexican, Balkan, Lebanese, Indian, Thai, American and Chinese restaurants. The Chinese places...
...across rooftops, "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is great, God is great). Not with every holiday, religious event and memorial day an opportunity, a possibility, for protest. Things are not yet over in Iran. The phrase "Atash zire khakestar" (There is yet fire under the ash) is heard a lot these days...