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...European banks. The U.S. government - reluctant to bail out banks directly - welcomed this infusion, even though SWFs are investment arms of foreign governments and American politicians are often suspicious of outsiders acquiring stakes in key domestic assets. So instead of a bailout of financial institutions by American taxpayers, we saw a foreign-funded bailout...
...until it's clear how well this one goes. (The Louvre Abu Dhabi is scheduled to open in 2013.) Still, he's a fervent advocate of sharing the Louvre's collection with a worldwide audience. From its beginnings as a museum over 200 years ago, he points out, it saw its vocation as being universal, not just French...
...when we got to talking, I could tell he was happy, and I realized that my other friend had been, too. And I saw that a large part of my angst stemmed from elitism. I liked to think that choosing an East-Coast college—especially one like Harvard—meant leaving these friends behind in order to grow up. But in truth, I had no right to scorn my friends for not conforming to my own idealized ambitions. I was mistaking having a beard for being an adult...
...Ministry of the Interior announced the snap election on July 2nd, the Brotherhood suffered harrassment and arrest: an estimated 50 Muslim Brothers are believed to have been taken into custody. The MB, nevertheless, managed to field candidates for three of the four open seats. The districts, according to Reuters, saw only a "trickle" of voters at the polling stations on July 13. The next day the government declared victory. The MB pronounced the results fraudulent...
...bombing. When I go out, I am not sure whether I return alive or not." The week before in Kabul, a taxi driver named Aimal Naheb was stuck in traffic when an explosion lifted his car and blackened the air with dust. Only when the dust cleared and Aimal saw flames coming from the Ministry of the Interior just 15 cars in front of him did he realize he wasn't the target. Fearful of a secondary explosion, Aimal turned across traffic and drove away as fast as he could. The people fated to die were dead already...