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...Gist: Filkins, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, delivers an unflinching look behind the front lines of the war on terror. Whether it's a crowd impassively watching a soccer field execution in pre-9/11 Afghanistan or a group of American soldiers throwing everything they have at a sniper (bullets, grenades, tank shells, air-to-ground missiles) for six hours - only to watch him escape on a bike - Filkins confronts the absurdity of war head...
...That was a pointed reference to the perils of investing in U.S. financial companies over the last 18 months. In May 2007, China Investment Corp. (CIC), the country's sovereign wealth fund, sank $3 billion into Blackstone Group, the U.S. private equity firm, only to watch its stake shrink by half in value as financial stocks tanked. "The leadership [in Beijing] thinks they got taken and they are determined not to let it happen again," says a Hong Kong investment banker close to CIC. But that does not mean the Chinese aren't interested. CIC bought 9.9% of Morgan Stanley...
...advocating that we ultimately throw ourselves into the Charles River, like Quentin Compson in The Sound and the Fury. But surely it wouldn’t hurt to skip class once in awhile, go boating with dapper northern bluebloods, play with our father’s watch and indulge in jumbled metaphysical speculations about the nature of time. The incest part might have been a little weird. But Faulkner, like other writers, had a point about the indissoluble link between beauty and death, a theme that turned over eternally in his characters’ minds, and an ache that...
...What's Next • The Associated Press reported that South Korean officials are keeping a close watch on Kim's female caregiver Kim Ok who may be signing official documents on the ailing leader's behalf and gaining government influence. • North Korea's military is about 1.1-million strong with military spending accounting for about 25% of the gross domestic product, leaving little left for a population of more than 23 million...
Dahal knows Nepal needs outside help. But the Maoists, who remain on the U.S. State Department's terror watch list with a reputation for vigilante violence, have yet to gain the full confidence of the international community. This holds most true for India, whose foreign policy establishment is still reeling from the overthrow of Nepal's ancien regime and the political elites it had previously patronized. Though India helped vault Dahal into the limelight by forcing Nepal's monarchy into peace talks with his rebels, certain circles in New Delhi harbor a fundamental distrust for the Maoists as India reckons...