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...corporate America than they did just a month ago. Part of this new burst of cynicism is coming from the brutally candid earnings that guidance companies have been providing lately. "What management is saying on these [conference] calls is basically 'Life sucks,'" says Van Dijk. (He titled his investment report for the close of October "Halloween Comes Early: The Drop in Earnings Expectations Is Scarier Than Any Witch or Werewolf That Shows Up at Your Door...
...intelligence community seems to share that assessment. While still a "work in progress," the National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan, due out after the U.S. elections, portrays a country on a "downward spiral," says a Pentagon official who was briefed about the report. The key reasons: a revitalized Taliban, inadequate U.S. and NATO forces, the funds generated for the Taliban by narcotics, and a government so consumed by corruption and inefficiency that it cannot offer a reasonable alternative to the insurgents...
...Furman was appointed to head the first atomic-intelligence effort and was soon able to report that the Germans had not gotten very far in building a bomb. Two years later, he accompanied Little Boy's uranium core from Los Alamos, N.M., to Tinian Island and watched the Enola Gay take off on Aug. 6, 1945, with its historic payload...
...lists since August 1 of this year that cannot be explained by deaths and emigration alone. Colorado, for instance, which has had not only a number of highly visible registration drives but a net increase in population, has shown a net loss of 100,000 voters since 2004. A report from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law pointed out a case where a Mississippi voting official accidentally erased the records of ten thousand voters from her home computer. Whether political motivation was involved or not is difficult to ascertain, mostly because standards...
...could be made publicly available on the state website. Each person would be able to identify his or her own voting status directly and ensure that the proper forms have been filed and any holds released. Anybody who has been wrongfully removed from the rolls will be able to report it, easing the strain on voting officials and shortening the lines on Election...