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...staging attacks in the heart of the Islamic world. But starting on May 12, when at least nine Arabs were among the 26 victims in the first Riyadh attack, al-Qaeda and its surrogates seem to have abandoned any concerns about causing Muslim deaths or alienating Muslim public opinion. "You have Islamist terrorists attacking innocent victims as an indirect manner of striking Arab or Islamic governments that militants condemn as corrupt," says the adviser to Morocco's King. France's Jacquard calls the tactic a new "strategy of rupture." The purpose, he says, is to force Muslims "to finally, fatally...
...opinion of New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer, Pilgrim Baxter & Associates can claim the title of Most Egregiously Corrupt among the growing list of mutual funds under investigation. "Here you had the founders themselves manipulating the system," Spitzer told TIME. "There's an extra level of insidiousness to it." Complaints filed last week by Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Gary Pilgrim and Harold Baxter with civil fraud. They are accused of allowing an outside hedge fund (in which Pilgrim held a major stake) to make rapid trades in Pilgrim Baxter funds, a practice forbidden...
...believed to have been instigated by the Kremlin. The once independent NTV now prerecords most of its flagship Freedom of Speech talk show. And in September the government appointed a new board to run the country's most credible polling organization, the Russian Institute for the study of Public Opinion (VTSIOM). Fearing state control, the Institute's staff walked out. The new Putin-friendly VTSIOM recently announced a survey showing that the pro-Kremlin United Russia party was 18% ahead of its main rival, the Russian Communist Party (kprf). But the breakaway VTSIOM-a group published its own data giving...
Some pundits say the politicization of American news--opinion becoming more visible than headlines, politicos starting news outfits--means we are moving toward a "European" model of media, in which newspapers and news programs are openly left-or right-wing. You watch the Glass Half Full Channel, I watch the Glass Half Empty Channel and everyone's happy. But we're not Europeans: we can't simply light up a Gauloise, unfold a copy of our partisan newspaper and jadedly admit that bias is inevitable--c'est la guerre! Boy-Scoutishly, we feel this is wrong, cynical, corruptly Old World...
...need to have more of these discussions,” she said. “I felt very impressed by the intelligence and interest of my colleagues. It’s clear there are differences of opinion. It was great to bring in 15 faculty members who haven’t been part of the process...