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...central banker and I choose to invest my reserves more aggressively and I am successful...[most people] will never know what I did,” he said. But if those investments fail due to a weak market, central bankers face “substantial career risk...
...issue you care about ahead of the November election is going to be packaged as a "security" issue. Worried about flat wages or higher taxes? Republicans and Democrats alike want to talk to you about "economic security." Angry about Bush's handling of the war in Iraq or weak-kneed Democrats getting in the way of his domestic surveillance programs? Both sides have a message about national security...
...coordinated such actions are. In the case of Chen Guangcheng, for example, it is unclear whether his sentence was solely decided by local officials or sanctioned - even tacitly - by Beijing. Some speculate that China's President Hu Jintao is putting on a show of strength to bolster his relatively weak grip on the reins of power; the crackdown is seen as clearing the decks of potentially embarrassing dissenters before Beijing hosts the Olympic Games in the summer of 2008. The Chinese authorities are particularly sensitive to media coverage in periods leading up to major events like the Games. Many analysts...
...they head toward Nov. 7. Ahead of the holiday weekend, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) issued a statement headlined: "House GOP September Agenda to Focus on National Security, Homeland Security & Border Security." In case that was too subtle, Boehner added: "Now is not the time for a weak and indecisive approach that has been offered by Capitol Hill Democrats, and that's why Republicans are working to keep America safe through policies based on strength and purpose, rather than confusion and defeat...
...dismantle Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated entity created by the 1995 Dayton peace accord and one of the two ethnically centered statelets, or entities, that comprise Bosnia. The other is the Muslim-Croat federation. Each has its own parliament, government and president. (Bosnia as a whole has a weak central government and a three-member presidency: one Serb, one Muslim and one Croat.) Bosnian Serbs are threatening to secede and merge with neighboring Serbia. "When I hear people talk on the news and in the cafes, I get the feeling that they're just about to jump at each other...