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...Good Karma Re "Marriage Rows" [Feb. 12]: news of forced marriages and honor killings, two cruel practices of the unsophisticated Asian community, has always saddened me. I finished Jasvinder Sanghera's memoir Shame in four days. I pray more socially minded Asian women follow Sanghera's footsteps in setting up refuge centers for Asian women. I congratulate her for founding the organization Karma Nirvana, not for the rocky path she has taken. M.S. Shah Jahan Colombo...
...that Siniora succeeds in safeguarding Lebanon's independence and guiding its political and economic reconstruction. In a struggle between a rare Arab democratic movement supported by the West and parties backed by authoritarian regimes in Syria and Iran, his defeat would shatter a model for other Arab states to follow and dash the Bush Administration's only realistic hope for a Middle East success story. Victory for Iran, Syria and its allies, on the other hand, would probably doom the country to future conflicts with Israel and trigger a new exodus of educated Lebanese...
That's one way of looking at it. Another is to observe that while changes in risk appetite may not be predictable, they do follow a certain logic. "We view financial risk much like popcorn popping in a microwave," Merrill Lynch investment strategist Richard Bernstein wrote in January. "Until the first kernel pops, one tends to believe that nothing is happening. The initial pop seems like a random event until a second occurs. A third. A fourth. Then the popping goes wild...
...pays to follow up and find out what they’re trying to learn,” Gordon adds...
...debate shouldn't be over whether he and his staff got it right, but whether or not the CIA - which looked but could find no links between Saddam and al-Qaeda - should be immune from outside criticism. "The IG got this point wrong and it would be dangerous to follow his badly reasoned opinion on the issue," Feith writes on his site. "To guard against such errors, policy officials should be praised, not slapped, for challenging CIA products." He helpfully notes that the CIA got it wrong when it concluded, before the war, that Saddam's Iraq possessed weapons...