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...good news, at least from one perspective, is that despite the market's run-up and the still soft economy, stocks remain on pretty solid ground. So says Leon Cooperman, who runs Omega Advisors, a New York City hedge fund. Cooperman spent decades guiding the investment-policy committee at Goldman Sachs; he's long been considered a tough-minded, analytical sort with savvy instincts. (Read an interview with 2008's No. 1 stock picker...
...slight shift since the last Fed statement. At the end of April, the FOMC worried that "inflation could persist for a time below rates that best foster economic growth and price stability in the longer term." This time the wording was shortened to a simple prediction that "inflation will remain subdued for some time...
...volunteers - 13 men and 14 women - and sat them at computer screens where they were randomly shown pictures of 50 healthy and attractive babies and 30 others with distinct facial irregularities such as a cleft palate or a skin condition. The volunteers were told that each picture would remain on the screen for four seconds but they could shorten that time by clicking one key or prolong it by clicking another. What the researchers wanted to learn, Elman explains, is how much effort people were willing to exert to look at pictures of pretty babies or avoid pictures of less...
Since then, public spats with Israel have been the third rail of U.S. foreign policy. If Obama loses his current showdown with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they could well remain so for a generation. But luckily for Obama - and unluckily for the supporters of the political status quo in Washington and Jerusalem - he's not likely to lose...
...that state TV and radio cease broadcasting his songs. Shajjarian's anthems helped galvanize the Islamic revolution of 1979 and retain today their evocative and emotional pull. "I emphatically asked IRIB not to broadcast my voice, because this is the voice of the dirt and dust and will always remain so," he said in an interview with the BBC, referring to the denigrating term "dirt and dust" with which Ahmadinejad has labeled the protesters...