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  1. Leaders' False Assurances Doom Kuwaiti Investors

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Middle East - Oct 31, 2008

    KUWAIT CITY -- When Arab leaders assured their citizens that the financial troubles of the West would hit only lightly here, electronics dealer Mishal al-Fadli took Kuwait's government at its word.

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  2. Oil-Fueled Nation Feels Pinch

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - World - Oct 18, 2008

    BOGOTA, Colombia -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has delighted in the economic meltdown in the United States, mocking the Bush administration for its bailout plan and predicting the end of American economic

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  3. Gay Muslims, Victims of 'A Jihad for Love'

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Sep 5, 2008

    The relationship of Ferda and Kiymet is one of the few light moments in "A Jihad for Love," Parvez Sharma's documentary about homosexuality in the Muslim world. The two Turkish women laugh and touch in public, and in a

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  4. The Wrong Way to Kick An Oil Habit

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns - Jun 25, 2008

    High oil prices, like a walk under the summer moon, can drive normally rational people to do foolish things they later regret. For Barack Obama, it is a fling with a windfall profits tax on American oil companies --

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  5. Economists Debate Link Between War, Credit Crisis

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Middle East - Apr 14, 2008

    For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the connection between the Iraq conflict and the U.S. economic downturn is simple: "The president has taken us into a failed war," the California Democrat said recently. "He's taken us

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  6. Tomorrow's Emerging Markets

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Personal Finance - Apr 12, 2008

    For the past 25 years, Southeast Asian stocks dominated the dreams -- and the winnings -- of emerging-market investors. Today, those economies are looking more like those of the developed world.

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  7. A New Arms Race in the Gulf?

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Politics - Jan 21, 2008

    The Joint Direct Attack Munition is a kit that, when added to the back end of a 500- or 2,000-pound "dumb" bomb, turns it into a lethal, all-weather "smart" weapon. The bomb can hit within four feet of a target when

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  8. Fears About Economy Increase

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Bush Administration - Jan 11, 2008

    Major banks and mortgage companies yesterday sharply accelerated an industry consolidation that is set to change the landscape of American lending, while a convergence of events exposed fresh worries about the U.S

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  9. OPEC to Put $750 Million Toward Climate Research

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Middle East - Nov 19, 2007

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 18 -- With crude oil prices at $100 a barrel and much of the world clamoring for relief, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ended a two-day summit Sunday by pledging $750

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