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Among the top-tier performers are also, perhaps surprisingly, a number of banks. While it's true that plenty of finance firms have been absolutely clobbered - worst of all, nationalized housing giants Fannie Mae (down 98%, to $0.70) and Freddie Mac (down 98%, to $0.74); insurers AIG (down 97%, to $1.80) and Ambac (down 95%, to $1.38); and brokerage MF Global (down 94%, to $1.96) - operators of smaller, community banks that ostensibly didn't get caught up in so much mortgage-related fancy footwork have often thrived. Among them: Capitol Federal Financial in Kansas (up 41%, to $43.65), Tompkins Financial...
...Sunday, Quinn and Madigan made the rounds of national talk shows, saying the evidence and allegations against Blagojevich - that he engaged in pay-to-play politics for years, tried to purge the Chicago Tribune editorial board and, perhaps worst of all, tried to auction off a Senate seat - made it all but impossible for him to govern. "I hope the governor does resign," Quinn said on NBC's Meet the Press. "I think that's best for the people of Illinois, as well as for himself and his family...
...consequences are negative. They include a refugee and disease exodus (such as from Zimbabwe), sex trafficking (Bangladesh and Nepal) and drug-smuggling and terrorism (Afghanistan and Tajikistan). Indonesia, which has a weak government and endemic poverty and also happens to abut another primary sea route, was the world's worst piracy hotspot for a decade, until a couple of years ago, when it was overtaken by Nigeria, which has little law but plenty of poverty and oil platforms...
...weaker since it was appointed in 2004 in a bid to bring some form of effective governance to Somalia, which has essentially had no oversight since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted in 1991. In the years since, Somalia has become the site of one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters; more than a third of the country's 9.5 million people now rely on emergency food aid. Much of that aid isn't getting through because pirates operating off the Somali coast have perfected the business of seizing ships on their way to the Gulf of Aden...