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...unexpected losses. Concern about just how far these losses extend - and whether major financial institutions are at risk - has caused global stock and bond markets to tremble in recent weeks as investors sold assets to raise cash. This presents a particularly thorny problem for policymakers. Central banks have used special injections of liquidity to prevent key interbank credit lines from seizing up. But the U.S. Federal Reserve has few levers to pull when it comes to the non-bank sector that is at the epicenter of the contraction. Many investors are betting that the Fed will have to do more...
...Clinton campaign has blamed a faulty background check for its failure to scrub Hsu's past and says it will return the $850,000--the largest such single giveback in presidential-campaign history. And while there is no evidence that Hsu received any special governmental access for his largesse--either from Clinton or Barack Obama or any of the other numerous Democratic candidates he enriched--the role of bundlers like him will certainly come under more scrutiny from the press and the campaigns. Clinton's advisers have already promised to take a close look at any future mysterious strangers bearing...
...which were still found mainly in specialty video stores. That brought him to the festival's attention, though Cowan already knew him as a knowledgeable amateur. "Colin was always more than a fan," Cowan says. "Talking to him in line year after year I realized that he had something special to offer...
...played 20 years ago in high school, and my coaches really pounded home the need for good form, to keep the head up to maintain the curvature of the head and spine to dissipate any forces from impact," says Dr. Andrew Sama, spinal surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. "But everything happens so fast on the field, all it takes is a tiny change in head position to get you in trouble...
...then military chief Pervez Musharraf. Despite a landmark Supreme Court ruling last month that the former premier could not legally be denied a return to his home country, Sharif was bundled out of the Islamabad Airport first class lounge by a phalanx of plainclothes police officers and elite special forces soldiers clad in tight black T-shirts. While the Pakistani government has not yet confirmed his deportation, intelligence officials say he was placed on a plane departing for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. "He never even got his passport stamped," says Amjad Malik, a British lawyer who was with Sharif...