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...Clinton aide, "it's not their plan. The military will never accept the White House staff doing military planning." Terrorism, officials from the State Department suggested, needed to be put in the broader context of American policy in South Asia. The rollback plan was becoming the victim of a classic Washington power play between those with "functional" responsibilities--like terrorism--and those with "regional" ones--like relations with India and Pakistan. The State Department's South Asia bureau, according to a participant in the meetings, argued that a fistful of other issues--Kashmir, nuclear proliferation, Musharraf's dictatorship--were just...
Throw in unusually high levels of short selling (a bet that stocks will fall) and frenzied institutional selling that drove the Dow to its closing low of 7702 on July 23, and you have a classic snapshot of how bear markets are supposed to end. Some market gurus now say the average stock is undervalued by 20% or more. Even if the major indexes haven't hit rock bottom, individually "many companies likely have hit their low," says Donald Straszheim of the economics firm Straszheim Global Advisors...
...Attorney James Comey, who announced the indictment in New York City, alleged that Tokhtakhounov "arranged a classic quid pro quo: 'You'll line up support for the Russian pair; we'll line up support for the French pair; and everybody will go away with the gold, and perhaps there'll be a little gold for me.'" The gold for Tokhtakhounov, Comey said, was to be the renewal of his expired French visa--which he never got. A simpler explanation might be that this tough guy was doing a favor for an even tougher mama...
There are two songs that will cause the future young women of the world to recall just how miserable they were as adolescents. Jimmy Eat World's The Middle is packed with enough angst and affirmation to inspire a John Hughes trilogy. It's a classic teen ugly-duckling song that begins with lead singer Jim Adkins' addressing teen girls directly: "Hey, don't write yourself off yet/ It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on." Forget the twee lyrics; it's a taut three minutes of guitar rock that...
Sheryl Crow's Soak Up the Sun wants very badly to be your classic rock song of the summer. The title is begging for it, but the lyrics--"I don't have digital/ I don't have diddley squat"--are as empty as a high school yearbook quote, and the chorus sounds like an orange-juice jingle. But who doesn't go around singing the occasional orange-juice jingle...