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...rash of fund scandals changed the game. Star power faded, and up stepped little-known (but not so little) American Funds to rewrite the script for success. American Funds woos investors with a team approach that insulates fund investors from the carnage that a single mistaken ego may unleash. The company is raking in money so fast that it has inspired copycats--just as its funds have grown so large they threaten to become unwieldy...
...French person living in the U.S., I want to point out that those who believe that all the rioters in France are Muslim are mistaken. The protesters are a mixed population of immigrants, some from North Africa, some from black Africa and some from the Caribbean. Many are Muslim, some belong to religions other than Islam, and others are not religious. What is happening in France has nothing to do with Muslim extremism, al-Qaeda or the war on terrorism. The riots are the result of the complete failure of France to absorb and integrate its immigrant population. Period. Anne...
...erstwhile allies. Germany's new foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and its former Interior Minister, Otto Schily, could face parliamentary investigations for failing to reveal that they knew about a German national, Khaled el-Masri, who German prosecutors say was abducted allegedly by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity and flown to Afghanistan where he was imprisoned and interrogated for five months. El Masri said he was tortured, and is now suing the CIA and its former director George Tenet over the incident. Some German opposition figures say Schily and Steinmeier tacitly cooperated with the U.S. policy...
...former member of parliament then challenging the President, died of an apparent brain hemorrhage, people were swift to suggest he had been murdered. Three more prominent opposition activists have since disappeared. And in 2000, when a Russian TV cameraman was kidnapped and murdered, some alleged he had been the mistaken victim of a politically motivated assassination. Christos Pourgourides, delegated by the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly to look into these cases, concluded in a January 2004 report that top state officials took steps "to cover up these disappearances" and "may themselves be involved." All such charges have been flatly...
...French person living in the U.S., I want to point out that those who believe that all the rioters in France are Muslim are mistaken. The protesters are a mixed population of immigrants. Many are Muslim, some belong to religions other than Islam and some are not religious. What is happening in France has nothing to do with Muslim extremism or al-Qaeda. The riots are the result of France's failure to absorb and integrate its immigrant population. Period...