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...Monday, with the Dow rising 235 points. So is this the sign of a true financial-stock recovery, or a seductive bear trap? TIME contributing editor John Curran caught up with Oppenheimer & Co. chief investment strategist Brian Belski, who was in Tel Aviv on Monday, to get his view on banks...
...Pentagon to come up with a military plan to take out Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, just in case. No doubt this pleases the Israeli Premier. As Israeli newspaper columnist Nahum Barnea wrote recently, "For Netanyahu, preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is everything." (Read about world leaders' view of Obama's election...
...imbroglio piles on the discomfort for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who already trails the Conservatives in public affection. A general election isn't due until the spring of 2010, but Tory leader David Cameron has called for an immediate poll. Voters "want to elect a new Parliament. Their view is that swapping one person in a funny black costume for another funny black costume is not actually going to make all the difference," he said, referring to the Speaker's ceremonial black robes. (Read "David Cameron: U.K.'s Next Leader...
...mistake to view the darker aspects of life in the Middle East as the entire spectrum and write off the rest," states MacFarquhar, a former Cairo bureau chief for the New York Times. The son of an American oilworker, MacFarquhar grew up in Libya and speaks Arabic. His survey of the modern Middle East is concerned with more than just the typical tales of conflict, death and revenge so often peddled by foreign correspondents. With both an insider's affection and an outsider's perspective, he paints a richer, more subtle portrait of the region through miniprofiles of the people...
...legal, some technological. People under 30 are more opposed to abortion than those who are older, perhaps because their first baby pictures were often taken in utero. I also wonder if younger women are now sure enough of their sexual autonomy and their choices generally that they don't view limits on abortion as attacks on their overall freedom. The calculation of rights subtly shifts, and the fetus, as it develops, asserts its claim on the conscience...