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...good news, at least from one perspective, is that despite the market's run-up and the still soft economy, stocks remain on pretty solid ground. So says Leon Cooperman, who runs Omega Advisors, a New York City hedge fund. Cooperman spent decades guiding the investment-policy committee at Goldman Sachs; he's long been considered a tough-minded, analytical sort with savvy instincts. (Read an interview with 2008's No. 1 stock picker...
Attendees of Thursday's protest also included at least two faculty members. Afsaneh Najmabadi, a professor of history and women, gender, and sexuality studies, said that layoffs were "not the only or the best option" to reduce costs at the University, and Brad Epps, a professor of romance languages and literatures and WGS, said he was "mad as hell" that workers had been laid off while senior faculty and administrators remain, to his knowledge, untouched...
That's as much as we can see of an opposition viewpoint on TV. The news has a droning sameness, the official message being "politics is a nasty business, but now it's over." At least nothing is really being hidden anymore. Except for that first night, Saturday June 20, the broadcasts have not shied away from the violence. But they've found a way to turn it inside out, make it about the protesters and not what has happened. When they want to make a point, they lay it on, 10 minutes, sometimes close to 15. As a friend...
...huge hit as a television series in the 1970s. Uncle Napoleon is a beloved paranoid curmudgeon, the Iranian Archie Bunker. He blames everything - the weather, the economy, the moral vagaries of his family - on the British. This has been a constant theme in Iranian public life for at least 100 years, although the U.S. has supplanted Britain as the Great Satan, the source of all Iranian miseries, since the revolution of 1979. (See pictures of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman whose death has rallied the opposition...
...records, in both men's cases tarnished during the 1998 riots and the breakaway of East Timor the following year, is enough to convince some voters that SBY remains the best man for the job. "SBY may be a bit dull and is not about fiery rhetoric, but at least he has stood behind his principles," says Hidayat Jati, an executive in the media industry. "Even his in-law [former central banker Aulia Pohan] has been put in jail for corruption. People like seeing that the élite are no longer above...