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...coffee futures. This function has only proved more important over the past 30 years, as the number and diversity of financial instruments have surged. But there's a dark side. Complexity and linkages across markets--tight coupling, in the language of systems analysts--make problems more likely to spread to other players, such as Wall Street banks, especially since hedge funds often leverage their investments, which magnifies gains. Or losses. "In most areas, risk goes down over time--airplanes are safer, GDP is more stable--but financial markets have gotten riskier," says Rick Bookstaber, a hedge-fund manager...
...promised Dutch ban is only the most recent and bizarre in a spate of assaults by European democracies that appear to be targeting the veil as a proxy for what they see as a dangerous spread of Islamic culture in Western Europe. In Britain, former Foreign Minister Jack Straw last month groused that the niqab created unnecessary barriers between people, and prevented communication because meaningful exchange "requires that both sides see each other's face". Prime Minister Tony Blair later added that it created a divisive "mark of separation." Wearing the hijab in schools is against the law in certain...
...track has spread rapidly via a link on IvyGateBlog.com, where the song has been the subject of over 100 user comments...
Against Brown, Brine’s outburst came at a perfect time for the Crimson, as her ability to find the back of the net turned a 2-0 score a minute and a half into the second period into a 5-0 spread just 13 minutes later...
...streets of Beirut filled with cars fleeing the city as soon as news spread that one of Lebanon's most prominent Christian politicians, Pierre Gemayel, had been assassinated in the capital. The killing of his uncle, President Bashir Gemayel, in 1982, marked the beginning of a particularly bloody chapter in Lebanon's 15-year Civil War. And the fear now spreading through the country is that this latest attack could usher in a similar period of heightened violence...