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Obama, President Barack • effectiveness of speech to Congress by, especially the last part...
...purpose of the 9/11 attacks was not simply to kill Americans. Rather, the attacks formed part of bin Laden's strategy to launch a global Islamist revolution aimed at ending U.S. influence in Muslim countries, overthrowing regimes there allied with Washington and putting al-Qaeda at the head of a global Islamist insurgency whose objective was to restore the caliphate that had once ruled territory stretching from Moorish Spain through much of Asia. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...
...outreach is in the eye of the beholder, and Democrats like Senator Chuck Schumer challenged the other team to step up: "The ball is now clearly in the court of the Republican Party. Are they going to continue to just say no? Or will they meet us part of the way? That's the question...
...tepid performance stems in part from the quality of companies coming to market. Several listings have come from the cash-strapped real estate and infrastructure sectors, and were perceived as overpriced. Says a Mumbai investment banker: "The market has run ahead of itself, and fundamentals aren't supporting present valuations...
...good part of this liquidity is coming from foreign institutional investors that are keen to diversify into a fast-growing economy that still has relatively few big listed companies. With a healthy GDP growth rate of 6.7% in the last fiscal year, India remains an attractive destination for investment capital that was sidelined by the recession. Bankers are hoping the market will get a boost later this year from the anticipated IPOs of companies such as cable-TV service provider Digital Entertainment Network, which has exposure to increasingly wealthy Indian consumers. "We're waiting for consumption-oriented companies to list...