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...calm the nerves of depositors and investors, promising coverage to foreign as well as local institutions. If the credit crunch shakes out speculators, known as "flippers," from Dubai's real estate market, that could help stabilize wildly inflationary conditions. "I am not necessarily thinking we are in a crash scenario," EFG-Hermes managing director Hashem Montasser tells TIME. "There is still genuine demand. Economies here are still growing. Overall, the economic situation is still very sound. We will see a deceleration of prices, and it's probably a good thing, as long as it's done in an orderly...
That a loss of four seats is now considered the GOP's best-case scenario tells you how dramatically the party's fortunes have changed. But the real question is whether Democrats can pick up the nine seats they need to grab a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. At this point, the answer still seems to be probably not. But such able handicappers as Jennifer Duffy of the Cook Political Report now think the Democrats could gain as many as eight seats, which would mean they would need no more than a single GOP vote...
...Laden's group is still a principal financial supporter, and as such would have input on major decisions that the Taliban make. Needless to say, it will be impossible for any negotiations to take place unless the Taliban renounce all ties with the terrorist group. That's an unlikely scenario, says Zaeef. "I am not sure the Taliban will say to al-Qaeda, 'Leave the country and don't support us,' because there is no one else funding the Taliban, so there is no way they would beak with their key supporters...
...hang out with married people. Offer him a bribe, such as a hairy dog, if that's what he wants. To head off any incipient claustrophobia on his part, start having more ladies' nights. Tell him you don't even want a diamond. And in a worse-case scenario, give him an ultimatum...
...diplomatic source tells TIME that the most likely scenario would be for the tanks to simply turn around and return to Ukraine. "Everybody will be following where the tanks go now that this cargo has the spotlight on it," the source says. "I just have to assume that the cargo will have to go back, and they'll have to act like it never happened. I don't think now it's politically possible for South Sudan to take them." So far, Kenya has not produced what would be the conclusive document: an end-user certificate, which would show whether...