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...unlike in the past, there is very little evidence to suggest that the recent jump in gold has anything to do with inflation. Gold prices started increasing around the time the government released results of the bank stress tests, which indicated that many of the nation's top banks would need little or no further financial assistance. Many point to the stress tests' positive results as the beginning of the end of the financial crisis. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...school records with 44 regular-season and 15 postseason goals and led the Broncos to their first ever New York State championship. Rogers also excelled at a high level with the Albertson Soccer Club in Long Island, N.Y., one of the most elite club teams in the nation...
...into a corner, get the press in a frenzy, send his poll ratings plummeting, and the aging basketball player responds again and again with the same move: he delivers a major speech. And why not? It keeps working. It's the thing that first introduced him to the nation, at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It is what extricated him from the Jeremiah Wright mess during the campaign. It has become the central method of his foreign policy push, in Prague, Cairo, Moscow and Accra...
...problem is, Karzai's legitimacy is shot. Even before the election, many Afghans (though perhaps not a majority) were angry with him over his failure to curb a system of corruption and patronage that had paralyzed efforts to repair the war-thrashed nation. The international aid community is disheartened by the prospect of another five years of a government that is infested with warlords and drug traffickers. And Washington is fed up with Karzai's duplicity and fecklessness. Despite the fact that he came to power on the back of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, Karzai used the latest...
...Last month's presidential election was meant to help that. Democracy, at least, was one thing that the U.S.-led forces in the central Asian nation had managed to make work. Instead, the polls have turned into a disaster. Opposition politicians and Western diplomats allege epic-scale ballot-box stuffing, mainly by - but not exclusively - supporters of Karzai. The U.N. says votes in districts where fraud is proved to have taken place should be annulled. Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission has ordered a partial recount of the vote, citing "clear and convincing evidence of fraud." Karzai's closest challenger, Abdullah...