Word: sundays
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...wild ride began when Porsche quietly announced on Sunday that it now held nearly three quarters of VW's equity, having expanded its direct stake in VW to 42.6% from 35%, and also having exercised call options on enough shares to raise its stake to 74.1%. The sports-car manufacturer's announcement that it had effectively taken control of VW was very bad news for hedge funds and banks that had taken short positions on VW shares on the assumption that their price would fall...
...point pontification was the stuff of legend among his Senate colleagues, Biden is now leashed to a teleprompter even when he is talking in a high school gym that is three-quarters empty. The exposure hound who in recent years appeared more often than any other guest on the Sunday talk shows is a virtual stranger to the small band of reporters on his plane - less accessible than even Sarah Palin is to her traveling pack of bloodhounds. And Biden keeps to a schedule that provides a minimum of off-the-cuff encounters with voters, except across a rope line...
...Crimson player took the first set and had a match point in the second, but Steiner fought back to even the score. The final set proved easier for Peterzan, who came away with the 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 victory. Her momentum carried over to the second round Sunday against Fordham’s Dominique Ligouri. Peterzan emerged victorious 6-0, 6-0, a tally made even more impressive by Ligouri’s singles draw seeding of 17. “I thought it would be a little closer, but [Peterzan] was just on a mission...
...Sunday's surprise raid by helicopter-borne U.S. troops in eastern Syria raises at least three key questions. Given that the U.S. is saying the number of volunteer fighters infiltrating Iraq from Syria has dwindled significantly in the past 18 months, why was this action deemed necessary? Does the raid signal a shift in U.S. tactics in the region? And with just over a week before the U.S. presidential election...
Cross-border strikes are an increasingly common tactic by U.S. forces operating along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. U.S. missile-launching drones reportedly killed at least 20 people on Sunday in Pakistan's South Waziristan province close to the Afghan border, an area suspected of harboring al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Andrew Exum, a former U.S. Army officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as founder of the influential Abu Muqawama counterinsurgency blog, suggests that the American action in Syria shows that the tactic may simply have been exported. "The precedent has already been established of crossing borders into...