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...that one trade alone. Hall has also reportedly been buying gold this year. Another good move. Inflation fears recently pushed gold above $1,000 an ounce. "Most commodity traders would love to have Hall's ability to call the large trends," says Stein. "He had a long-term view of the market and he was right...
...Standing Alone Many in Burma's pro-democracy movement - and in the U.S. Congress - view any overtures to the generals as appeasement and say Than Shwe personally has blood on his hands. Aung Lynn Htut, a former Burmese diplomat and army major who defected to the U.S. in 2005, claims Grandfather personally ordered the massacre of 81 men, women and children on a remote Burmese island in 1998. Five years later, Than Shwe's thugs attacked the convoy of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Depayin, west of Mandalay, killing or injuring dozens of her supporters...
...center of global terrorism, it's not quite there. Much is going to depend on personnel. If the new President of the E.U. is a person of international stature (as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the front-runner for the post, plainly is), able to project Europe's view while convincing the smaller members of the union that their voices count, then Europe is going to be a bigger player internationally. In time, this could be to the enormous advantage of the U.S., which has neither the will nor the wallet to tackle every crisis...
Even more importantly, a British disengagement from E.U. decision-making would aggravate the U.S. Washington wants Britain to be central to European policy, because it believes - with some reason - that London's view on international security and economic issues tends to be closer to its own than that of other European powers...
...Jean's subsequent election as president of the conservative group in regional council was simply the work of officials loyal to Nicolas Sarkozy seeking to boost his son's career. That rightist domination within EPAD, opponents say, will similarly produce a pro forma election of Jean by people who view him as the second coming of his father - and the right's potential star in years to come. "This is the appropriation of a country by one family and clan," said Socialist legislator Michèle Delaunay. "The Sarkozy clan is taking the entire region into its grip...