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For the moment, however, troops have been asked to secure Islamabad and other "sensitive areas" in the event of violent clashes. "When the situation deteriorates, gets out of hand of police, paramilitary [troops], only then the army is deployed," Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the military's chief spokesman, told the...
Two important announcements were largely unnoticed. The first was that several measurements of unemployment worsened, approaching levels not seen since the early 1980's. Also obscured by the elation was the important disclosure that the average American household lost 18% of its net worth last year. Since that process has...
Is Michelle Obama the Rosie the Riveter of the Bernie Madoff era? Maureen Dowd seems to think so. “Let’s face it,” she writes in the New York Times, “The only bracing symbol of American strength right now is...
State regulation, protection, and intervention do not necessarily mean economic isolation from the rest of the world. But, when faced with a choice, we should certainly favor regulation over protectionism. If strong global regulation doesn’t happen, then the most sensible thing for many countries will be to...
Still, even some Iraqis who agreed with such comments viewed the sentence as unduly harsh. But it could have been a lot worse: the correspondent, who has been in custody since he was wrestled to the ground by security men seconds after throwing his shoes, faced up to 15 years...