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What's the outlook for commodities like gold? Risk aversion will continue, and that means continued interest in commodities. Gold will be strong but, interestingly, not because of inflation but because as the dollar gets weaker, people want someplace safe to put their money, and right now they view gold as more stable than the dollar.(Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...need handshakes and victory parades," says Alex Lemons, 30, who spent eight years in the Marines as a scout-sniper, including four tours in Iraq, before leaving the service last month. "We need to come back and see that people are ready to put us to work after we've been out there on their behalf doing some crazy dirty work." The stresses of deployment leave some veterans unable to reach out to help, but many are eager to do so just the same, which could help smooth their transition back to civilian life. "Getting involved in volunteer projects helps...
...Baby steps" was how U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it recently in Jerusalem, the idea being to get the two sides talking at a lower level in the hope of generating some momentum. Abrams welcomes that approach, as long as it's tied to expanded efforts to improve Palestinian economic life and freedom of movement on the West Bank, and helping the emergence of the infrastructure of statehood. "I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some...
...that approach may be just as unrealistic as the others, at least for now. "We can't impose a solution, because we have no capacity to enforce one," says Aaron David Miller. "The President won't put out U.S. ideas on a solution without a reasonable expectation of success...
...crowd in Texas was free to react without coaching. To be stirred, perhaps, by Army Chief of Staff General George Casey's steely recital of "the warrior ethos." To be humbled by "those who signed up," as Obama put it, "knowing that they would serve in harm's way." Maybe to feel a moment's hollowness, in which understanding meets its limits, everything is still and no words can do justice...