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Lending remains absolutely frozen right now, as banks are too frightened to lend to each other - let alone businesses and municipalities, since they're worried about who could go under next. The initial market reaction to Paulson's speech was something on the order of: "Holy [expletive deleted], we must really be in trouble." The market cratered when it heard on Wednesday, losing nearly 190 points on the Dow after trading in the black for most of the day. It tanked again on Thursday...
...Khosal's brother Dawood says local tribes want Australian troops to quit the area, but he does not believe President Karzai has the power to order them out. In a meeting in Kabul, he says, Karzai offered to continue paying his father's salary every month. The Australian government says it is negotiating to pay compensation to Khan's family. ADF head Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said, "We deeply regret [Khan's] death. We are working very closely with [Khan's] tribe to ensure that this has no far-reaching negative effects on our operations in the province...
...Many argue that the nuclear deal is necessary in order to provide India with a carbon-free way to feed its enormous and growing demand for energy. But this does not excuse the fact that in adopting the treaty, the United States has effectively given away the bank. Indeed, numerous non-proliferation experts have criticized the deal both because it lacks safeguards, and because its very adoption undermines the international anti-proliferation framework by giving India an unprecedented exemption...
...where a powerful ethnic lobby—perhaps along with some romantic notions about supporting the world’s most populous democracy—caused yet another foreign policy blunder. Since the Bush administration first negotiated the agreement in 2005, the Indian-American community has organized heavily in order to guarantee its passage. As The New York Times reported in 2006, “Indian-Americans, as well as the Indian government in some cases, have invested heavily in proven political tools that have helped previous immigrant groups break into American politics—hiring lobbyists, organizing fund-raisers...
...children were enrolled in private schools. By 2006, the figure had nearly doubled. A fifth of students between the ages of 6 and 7 cannot recognize letters and read words, according to an annual survey by Pratham, a Mumbai-based NGO that tracks children's literacy across India in order to assess the efficiency of rural and government school education. Though Pratham's 2007 figures show an improvement, the figures are still grim - and don't bode well for a nation, half of whose one billion inhabitants are under...