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...Riots over power shortages, usually a standard summer feature when demand is at its highest, are rocking Pakistan's major cities. In the industrial town of Multan, a recent protest over power outages saw 58 gravely injured and hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to government buildings, factories, utilities and vehicles. If the problems continue it could lead to political instability. "The economy is more urgent than extremism," says an American diplomat in Islamabad...
This mix of dread and absurdity is standard operating procedure in HBO's Generation Kill (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.), which combines bone-rattling action, lacerating drama and comedy as dark and dirty as a nighttime sandstorm. Produced and co-written by David Simon and Ed Burns, who took a similar approach to America's urban ills in the brilliant HBO cop drama The Wire, Kill is no fictional critique. It's based on the book by embedded journalist Evan Wright, and the adaptation is faithful to his book down to the precise dialogue...
...program could rise--but would probably be dwarfed by other spending to combat the crisis. A worst-case taxpayer bailout of mortgage-market giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose plummeting stock prices caused consternation in early June, could cost as much as $1.1 trillion, according to Standard & Poor's. Which brings us back to the big question: Would a law that helps a few hundred thousand homeowners avoid foreclosure really have an impact on house prices? Well, compared to what...
...Burberry, the luxury-goods firm, CEO Angela Ahrendts frets about a combination of rising costs, falling demand and a strong euro that cuts into competitiveness. "There's a perfect storm out there," she says. Many investors would agree: this year, stocks across Europe are down 20% or more, the standard measure of a bear market...
...addition, Harvard entered into a binding agreement with Massachusetts last September to keep its future carbon emissions from its Allston campus at just 30 percent of the national standard for a similar project. In exchange, Harvard will be able to seek approval for each individual project instead of for the entire campus, thus potentially speeding regulatory approval for some of the construction...