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...folks: peel back the inside information, the hands washing each other, the corruption and the greed, and Wall Street is still, at its heart, a high-stakes crapshoot. And nobody craves advice, good or bad, like gamblers. It gives them some sense of intelligence - and gives them someone to blame when they lose...
...benefited from France's electoral laws, which allow multiple candidates in the first round. Jospin received just over 16% of the vote, compared with nearly 17% for Le Pen and 20% for Chirac. Other candidates of the left, together with the Greens, gathered nearly 27%. Just as some Democrats blamed Ralph Nader for Al Gore's failure in 2000, so Jospin's supporters can blame the comrades who siphoned votes away from him. Still, the question remains: Why did so many voters desert the mainstream candidates? How about: because they are bored stiff with them. Chirac first served as Prime...
...striking combination of intellectual ability and social cluelessness as the "geek syndrome." Wired went on to make a provocative if anecdotal case that autism and Asperger's were rising in Silicon Valley at a particularly alarming rate--and asked whether "math-and-tech genes" might be to blame...
...Marshall Islands, an associated state, living independently but under Moscow's protective wing. Russia shows no sign of sharing this dream, Abkhaz Prime Minister Anri Dzhergenia concedes. But right now Abkhazia has a more pressing problem: the threat of another war with Georgia. If that happens, Abkhaz officials say, blame the U.S. military advisers who will soon start training the Georgian army. An advance unit of U.S. Green Berets arrived in Georgia last week. The Georgians will mount a "full-scale attempt to solve the Abkhaz problem by force before the onset of autumn," says General Vladimir Arshba, Abkhazia...
...With hard-liners seizing on such testimony as reason to attack, it falls to Secretary of State Colin Powell - whom many Administration hawks blame for preventing a march on Baghdad at the end of the Gulf War - to play the lonely diplomat. While batting down rumors that he is fed up and quitting, Powell and his deputy, Richard Armitage, are close to getting a new set of Iraqi sanctions at the U.N. But other Administration principals fear that Saddam is working his own U.N. angle for the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq, whose presence could make the U.S. look...