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Could it be that global equity markets are just too irrational to merit the obsessed attention they're enjoying these days? That's the question some observers were asking Friday as indices in Asia and Europe posted gains only to decay again as the day progressed. It was a fittingly wacky end to a week that has seen bourses see-saw with unprecedented volatility. The VIX, Wall Street's leading measure of market volatility and investor fears, briefly scaled 80 points for the first time in its 18-year history Thursday, as stocks slid over recession worries...
...Doon’s desire to help the human race, takes place under, around, and through the city, unveiling the secret escape from the City of Ember. Ronan, who previously earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in “Atonement,” has proven her merit once again. Her performance is heart-warming and inspired, and she becomes the shining star of the movie. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast, which includes Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste in secondary roles, is disappointing. Murray, whose melancholy performances are always balanced with humor, is unfunny...
...Middle East and especially Palestine and the Palestinians, but most people lack an understanding of the situation.” For many filmmakers, the festival helped provide valuable exposure and a venue for their art. “Palestinian cinema deserves a festival and a venue on its own merit regardless of the political atmosphere that surrounds it,” Ayyash said. “This medium of film is an art form that can help interested people really understand the human conditions of another group of people that seem so far and removed from them...
...defending the use of the program, Hutchins described its targets as "fringe people." Other than describing some of my family, I hadn't realized fringe was a criminal activity. But more to the point, What does Maryland know about terrorism? Does the Baltimore grocer from Pakistan's North Waziristan merit ending up on Maryland's terrorist list because he calls home every weekend...
...feminist groups over his alleged sexual abuse of stepdaughter Zoilamerica Narvaez during the 1980s. The allegation first surfaced in 1998, but was eventually dismissed by a Sandinista judge without investigation or trial - despite an investigation by the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, which determined that the case had merit. In most democracies, the furor would have been enough to sink any political career. But not in Nicaragua, where Ortega - protected by legal immunity and a judicial system stacked with Sandinista judges - has not only survived but thrived, returning to the presidency in 2007 and amassing more power than ever before...