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...time of his death, has cooperated fully with investigators and that a criminal investigation is being pushed by anger over the megastar's death. "Based on Dr. Murray's minute-by-minute and item-by-item description of Michael Jackson's last days, he should not be a target of criminal charges," Chernoff said in a statement. "Dr. Murray was the last doctor standing when Michael Jackson died, and it seems all the fury is directed toward him. Dr. Murray is frustrated by negative and often erroneous media reports...
...still go perhaps have less to lose; one man in his 30s, who earns roughly $300 a month working three jobs, has been to almost every protest thus far, with a bag of metal bearings in his pocket and a slingshot under his belt that he uses to target the Basij. "Yes, I'm risking my life," he admits. (See a video of TIME's Joe Klein discussing Iran's election...
...Goldman's bullish report today is the clearly stated anxiety over next year's economy. "Although our current economic outlook is for below-trend growth through 2010, the risk of a 'double-dip' recession remains significant," the report notes. That said, Goldman Sachs raised its year-end price target for the stock market 13%, sending a strong message to institutional investors to not sit on their hands, even in the face of major uncertainties. Among the stock groups Goldman favors: energy, basic materials, financials and technology...
Holding up a picture of himself, the President said he received intelligence that gun-toting masked extremists had used his face as target practice. SBY, as the President is commonly known in Indonesia, also said that radicals had vowed that "there would be a revolution if SBY wins" and that "they wished to turn Indonesia into [a theocracy like] Iran." Although, the President did not explicitly link such intelligence with the July 17 terror attacks, the implication was clear: the men who wanted to hurt Indonesia also wanted to damage the moderate ex-general who is leading the world...
...Friday morning may have been related to disgruntled parties unhappy with his landslide re-election victory on July 8 or terrorist groups that the country was not familiar with. In an emotional speech in front of the Presidential Palace, Yudhoyono showed photos of his picture being used as a target by unidentified masked men holding rifles. "This terrorist action is believed to have been carried out by a terrorist group but not necessarily a terrorist network that we have known thus far in Indonesia," he said. "I have instructed law enforcers to put on trial whomever is involved in this...