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What does make perfect sense to anyone from those Midland days is to blame Wall Street. Bush remains distrustful and not a little dismissive of the investment bankers who swooped into Texas with saddlebags full of cash when oil prices gushed but galloped out of town when prices sank. Back in April, when the Dow hovered around 10,000, a White House economic adviser told the President at a social gathering that "there's no reason this market shouldn't be around 7500." According to an eyewitness, Bush made a face, turned and walked away, as if the subject bored...
...would be nice to blame Osama bin Laden. But the recent murders of several women, allegedly by Army husbands who returned from the war in Afghanistan not long ago, confound any quick explanation. In all, four soldiers at the same base, Fort Bragg, near Fayetteville, N.C., are accused of killing their wives during the past seven weeks. The odd clustering of the murders, along with the recent Afghanistan service of three of the suspects, has some people wondering if there's a common thread--perhaps even the first signs of post-traumatic stress in this...
Many Saudis resent Western attempts to blame Wahhabism for Sept. 11; they say the Saudis who ultimately joined bin Laden's brigade learned their trade not in Saudi Arabia but by fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan--a war supported and funded in part by Washington. But some Saudi elites have begun to argue that something is basically rotten in their homeland. Says a Saudi journalist: "Wahhabism breeds extremism. It was building up, and bin Laden used it. The government should have said, 'Enough is enough...
Pittman was tired of the travel and time away from his young family. And he was tired of the blame he was getting for the company's woes, reflected in its widely held stock, which has fallen more than 70% over the past 12 months. Parsons asked Pittman, 48, to take the weekend to "cool off" and think it over. But Pittman did not have second thoughts. Last week he resigned...
...knows for sure who is to blame for the murders. But even by the bloody standards of Thailand's troubled Muslim south, it's the worst wave of violence in decades. Police stations, train stations, hotels and government offices have all been bombed lately. Since January alone, 17 policemen have been murdered, and a bounty of 200,000 baht ($5,000) has been offered up by a shady Muslim group to encourage further cop killings. And nobody knows why. "It's creepy," says Sergeant Marohsae Moohanan of Sungai Padi Station near Thailand's border with Malaysia. Earlier this month...