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...Nobel award has done nothing to assuage Israeli suspicions. Knesset Chairman Reuven Rivlin said he thought it was "very strange" that Obama had won the award and feared that the President would use it as an opportunity to force Israel into a peace deal. Bloggers have been harsher. "Thank you Nobel Prize Committee for awarding the most ridiculous Nobel Prize for Peace since 1994, when you awarded one to the terrorist leader Yasser Arafat," wrote jewliscious.com blogger Dahlia, a student living in Israel. "Well done and kudos...
...worth and figured that for things to fall back in line with where they've been historically, Americans would have to get rid of some $3 trillion to $5 trillion in debt over the next few years. (Read "Lidia Bastianich Saves Our Dough.") Lansing and San Francisco Fed colleague Reuven Glick ran a simulation of what would happen if U.S. consumers followed a path similar to that of Japanese businesses in the 1990s. That was another episode of a great debt dump following a stock-and-real-estate bubble - it's one of the examples economists often turn...
Lynch's attorney, Reuven Cohen, a deputy federal defender, said, "The bottom line is this: If this case were brought today, Charlie would not be prosecuted, period. And anyone who says otherwise is either completely lying or does not know the truth or the facts. If the people at main justice are provided with full and accurate information, they will dismiss this case. If they are serious about what [Holder] said - in other words, that someone had to be in violation of federal and state law - then they will dismiss the case." (Read "An American Pastime: Smoking...
...Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak (leader of the Labor Party) and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (who replaced Olmert as leader of the Kadima party because of his impending corruption case) - are fierce political rivals. "If they were together on an island in a Survivor episode," says Reuven Hazan, a political scientist at the Hebrew University, "they would end up killing each other." And, needless to say with an election looming on February 10, that political rivalry appears to have had a major impact on Israel's conduct...
...vaunted secrecy laws notwithstanding. In light of Birkenfeld's arrest, private bankers from Zurich and Geneva to the Isle of Jersey off the coast of England are assuming a bunker mentality. One private banker in London, caught up on events at UBS, responded, "My God, we're doomed." Says Reuven Avi-Yonah, a professor and director of the international tax program at University of Michigan Law School: "The whole world of private banking is full of this stuff. In some ways, UBS has been singled out unfairly...