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...Center for Human Rights Policy last year after he had come back from reporting in Iraq. He called his return “jarring,” stating that Cambridge is “sort of all the things that Baghdad is not.” Aided by a slide show of photographs, Filkins spoke of being in Afghanistan before the NATO invasion, until he was arrested and expelled in the summer of 2000, and later, of shadowing a marine battalion during the invasion of Iraq. Filkins likened the aftermath of the American army’s successful march into...
Stocks continued to slide despite a spate of actions yesterday by Asian governments to stem financial volatility, boost economies and prop up markets. The People's Bank of China cut interest rates for the second time in three weeks, while reducing the reserve requirement ratio for most banks. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong's de facto central bank, also reduced the interest rate at which it lends to banks by a full percentage point in an attempt to ease credit markets. In India, policymakers promised to continue to act to keep the financial sector functioning. "If need...
...number of Britons began moving their money to these apparently safer havens, but that's not what triggered the precipitous slide in bank shares on Oct. 6. Ironically, it was leaking news of the British government's still unfinished rescue plan that caused mayhem in the markets. The government is offering to help banks raise up to $88 billion of new capital, either by buying preference shares in the institutions or encouraging commercial sources to invest. Together with an extension of the Bank of England's special liquidity scheme, which will now make $350 billion available to banks in short...
...bald woman thinks, “Pull my hair.” Women are crazy. Ludacris, the rapper whose modest height will always belie his astronomical self-esteem, constantly reminds us that he both subjugates women and deeply respects them. After spitting “So get loose and slide off your damn garments / Show ’em who’s the boss, they take orders from the sergeant,” he gets sentimental at the end, reclining among his adoring hos. “I love y’all,” he says...
Palin has perhaps her best opportunity of the campaign to reverse her slide tonight. A strong showing could convince women that she represents a historic opportunity to break the political glass ceiling. And expectations for her performance couldn't be much lower; after her unsteady performance in interviews with Katie Couric (including an apparent inability to name any Supreme Court cases other than Roe v. Wade that she disagreed with), Palin could go a long way to restoring her credibility with a strong showing in an unstructured format...