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...number right? Probably not. When looking at a market as large as mortgage-backed securities, once the magnitude becomes too great, it is impossible to be precise to the last dime. But, the figure is almost certainly within a narrow range of the actual problem big banks still face. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...daily life, members of the post-9/11 generation are increasingly relying on Islamic values rather than on a religion-based ideology to advance their aims. And importantly, the soft revolution has generated a new self-confidence among Muslims and a sense that the answers to their problems lie within their own faith and community rather than in the outside world. The revolution is about reform in a conservative package...
...Egyptian dentist, runs a blog called Waves in the Sea of Change, which is part of an Internet-based call for a renaissance in Islamic thinking. Yet Nagar belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, the largest Islamist movement in the Middle East. His blog launched a wave of challenges from within the Brotherhood to its proposed manifesto, which limits the political rights of women and Christians. Nagar called for dividing the religious and political wings of the movement, a nod to the separation of mosque and state, and pressed the party to run technocrats rather than clerics for positions of party...
...white South African, he once described himself as living at the "edge of huge social upheavals yet also removed from them." During the apartheid years, he didn't make propaganda films about the bitter fruits of the regime. Instead, he contrived melancholy parables about the psychological predicaments of life within a brutal and brutalizing system. You sense he's a man who would be happy to retreat into his own world if only the larger world weren't always drumming just outside his door. What James Joyce has Stephen Dedalus say in Ulysses--"History is a nightmare from which...
...other.”The two gained so much notoriety for their fierce battles that friends in high school and college have been known to place bets on their favorite brother.“I can’t tell you how many times we’ve been within a tenth of a second,” Dan laughs. “We’ve even tied for 16th before and had to swim off.”As the Jones’ talent grew in their late teens, the twins abandoned their second sport—cross...