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Since March, the dollar has lost about 15% of its value against the world's other major currencies. That's a dull way to put it, though, so you're more likely to read or hear that the greenback is "wobbling," "slumping," "plunging" or even "collapsing." Marc Faber, a Hong Kong-based investment guru with a flair for the dramatic, went so far as to declare in a TV interview a few weeks ago that the U.S. currency was on its way "to a value of exactly zero...
...self-made jihadists with no operational links to organizations or individuals abroad may now be the dominant terrorism threat on U.S. soil. Marc Sageman, a terrorism scholar and onetime CIA case officer in Pakistan, has charted the origins of terrorist events in the West since 2004. "Almost 80% of the plots in the past five years are homegrown groups with no physical links to any transnational terrorists group," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month. In his 2008 book Leaderless Jihad, Sageman says the "present threat has evolved from a structured group of al-Qaeda masterminds, controlling vast...
...Pierre Lellouche is known for speaking his mind freely and pushing limits - which is often effective in politics but troublesome for someone playing a diplomatic role," says Jean-Marc Lech, co-president of the polling firm Ipsos, adding that Lellouche's swagger and trash-talking are traits he shares with Sarkozy. "Sarkozy gave Lellouche a position in government no one would risk before. But once Lellouche stepped over the line on his own, Sarkozy made him clean up the mess himself...
...than the 43,677 lab-confirmed cases that were identified nationwide through July, according to the paper. “Not every case, by a long shot, got reported...Once the number of cases grew, issues of capacity made testing and reporting even more significant,” wrote Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a co-author of the study, in an e-mail...
...candidates were announced in order of decreasing vote count: Nancy Tauber, Richard N. Harding, Jr., Marc C. McGovern, Alfred B. Fantini, Nolan, Turkel, Joseph G. Grassi, Steinert, and Charles L. Stead, Sr.Of this list of nine, the first six are to seat the school committee for the next two years...