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...themselves driving down treacherous roads with only their rearview mirrors to guide them. This is a particularly discomfiting thought right now, when the word bubble is being bandied about to describe emerging markets. Stock markets from Mumbai to Shanghai have been hitting record highs with giddy regularity recently, in spite of dangers such as the murky outlook for the U.S. economy. The CSI 300, a benchmark index for China stocks, has nearly quadrupled in the past year, while India's Sensex index is up 35% since January. Even Nigeria's stock market, a relative newcomer to the radar screen...
...cousin-divorcer, pro-choice authoritarian, and most devilish papist—were to win the Republican nomination, he and a contingent of influential evangelicals would consider encouraging a man (inevitably) of better faith and adherence to the Gospels to run under the auspices of a third party. In spite of this group’s crucifix-rattling, Mr. Giuliani remains the Republican party frontrunner even in the South and even among the most devout Protestant conservatives just months before the beginning primary voting...
...suggests that were the vacuous former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney to survive the Republican primary, he would win not a little support from the same people who four years ago were condemning entire homosexuals, pro-choice liberals, and the city of New Orleans to hell: all this in spite of the fact that his own Mormon faith renders him something akin to a wizard through the Christian right lens...
...Those championing this framework began by asserting the incomprehensible inhumanity of the “terrorist.” In spite of the fact that many of the members of this movement were impoverished teenagers who relied on the school for food, shelter, and education, partisans of this approach did not tolerate attempts to understand their grievances. A particularly prominent Pakistani liberal raged that the “Lal Masjid battle is part of the wider civil war within the Islamic world waged by totalitarian forces that seek redemption through violence,” and decried their...
...midst of the high-flying rhetoric and masturbatory manoeuvring of the last two weeks, the UC has achieved a most alarming feat of alchemy. In spite of its funds’ being “frozen” by the College, it has continued to fund parties and student group events as if nothing has happened...