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...Since Jan. 2, the Standard & Poor's 500 index has given back roughly half of the 24% gain it had logged since mid-November's low of 741. The financial news, spiked with bankruptcies, bank losses, surging foreclosures, rising unemployment and a slew of lifestyle stories on how to live on less, is unnerving investors. On Thursday they confirmed their wariness by taking the Dow Industrials below 8000 briefly before boosting the index back to close at 8212, up 12.35 points...
...treated much like public drunkenness. It is okay, he says, to be drunk in private, but not in public. But he is clear to note that in private or public, Islam does not sanction homosexuality. So why were nine AIDS activists arrested with only lubricants and condoms—standard HIV-prevention tools—as supposed evidence of private homosexual conduct?The answer is that several authorities are guilty of the same sin as the HRW: disregard for historical and cultural context. Ignorance of the wide history of Shari’a law has permitted judges to antagonize gays.A...
...film played to rapturous crowds at the Toronto Film Festival; it received infectiously enthusiastic reviews from the critics; and, most important, it boasts an emotional energy that lifts moviegoers out of their seats, making them eager to tell their friends about the experience. Slumdog is not a standard indie film: glum, poky, wee. It's a sprawling epic, saturated in melodrama and romance, and capped by a big, Bollywood-style production number. People aren't seeing the movie as homework; they're seeing it because they've heard it's something that Hollywood too rarely gives them: a film they...
...Companies, historically, have made a deliberate decision to hold equities in pursuit of superior investment performance, and in some years that has worked. But this year, "it's gone wrong, and spectacularly so," says Adrian Hartshorn, a principal in Mercer's financial-strategy group. In 2008 the Standard & Poor's 500 index declined...
...overseas, including Grameen, do that by charging hefty interest rates - as high as 60% or 70%. (Yes, that's a colossal rate but one that's necessary to compensate for the risk and to attract bank funding.) But in the U.S., loans at rates much above Grameen America's standard 15% would most likely be attacked as usurious. (See 10 ways your job will change...