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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
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AFGHAN STRATEGY REVIEW

 Obama Eyes 30K+ Troop Surge 

Said to be close to decision as Asia trip looms

5 hours, 18 minutes ago

 UN Evacuates Afghan Staff  

Hundreds pulled out after deadly Kabul attack

Nov 5, 09 4:33 AM CST

Canadian Insider Trading Scheme Ends in Suicide

The sad tale of two greedy friends and their last, biggest score

Oct 29, 09 12:59 PM CDT

  Geithner 
 to Bankers: 
 Crackdown 
 Is 'War' 



Treasury secretary tells Wall Street it must accept regulation

Oct 28, 09 7:30 AM CDT
UPDATED

 UN Staffers Among 
 Dozen Killed in 
 Kabul Attacks 

Taliban claims responsibility for attacks on guest houses

Oct 28, 09 5:11 AM CDT
Study sees huge savings

 US Health Care 
 Wastes $700B a Year 

A third of spending is lost to pointless treatment, paperwork, fraud

Oct 26, 09 5:53 AM CDT

AIG Chief: Pay Czar's Authority 'Limited'

He tells employees they won't lose
salaries retroactively

Oct 22, 09 2:00 PM CDT

'Irresponsible'
to Send Troops Without Election Results: Kerry

Says Afghan leadership needs to be in place

Oct 18, 09 7:39 AM CDT

Most of Nobel Panel Objected to Obama Pick

Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland talked fellow voters into selection

Oct 15, 09 2:00 PM CDT

 Anthropologist: 
 Modern Male 
 Is 'Worst' 
 Man Ever 

We're not as robust, Aussie argues in new book

Oct 14, 09 5:00 AM CDT

 Imprisoned Polanski 
 'Depressed': Lawyer 

Fugitive director vows not to flee if he makes bail

Oct 11, 09 4:55 PM CDT

Fight Swine Flu: Wear
This Suit

Japanese company says its duds slay  H1N1 virus on contact

Oct 9, 09 12:32 PM CDT
UPDATED

 Blast Kills 17 Outside 
 Indian Embassy in Kabul 

Rush hour car bomb attack kills street cleaners

Oct 8, 09 7:50 AM CDT

 Angelou Alive, 
 Well, Despite 
 Reports 

TMZ reports poet's illness, Twitterers add 'RIP'

Oct 5, 09 1:24 AM CDT

 Congrats, Rio; Now Get to Work 

Brazil has some serious cleaning to get ready for 2016 Olympics

Oct 4, 09 12:53 PM CDT
h1n1 outbreak

 Swine Flu Victims 
 Could Swamp Hospitals 

CDC estimates are more than US can handle

Oct 1, 09 2:10 PM CDT

 Indonesian Quake Toll 
 Passes 500, May 
 Hit Thousands 

Rescuers scramble to save victims trapped by two massive shakers

Oct 1, 09 3:54 AM CDT
UPDATED

More Quakes Slam Indonesia, Still Counting Its Dead

Witness describes crumbled, burning wreckage in Padang

Sep 30, 09 9:25 PM CDT

Dylan Album Out Early—if You've Got a Citi Card 

Loyal Citibank customers get a 1-week jump on the rest of us

Sep 30, 09 10:20 AM CDT

 As Failures Mount, FDIC 
 Asks Banks to Prepay 

Regulator wants cash upfront through 2013 to avoid emergency credit line

Sep 30, 09 7:03 AM CDT
UPDATED

 Post-Quake Tsunami 
 Kills 34 in Samoa 

8.3-magnitude temblor rattles American Samoa

Sep 29, 09 6:34 PM CDT
UPDATED

 Typhoon Kills 32 in Vietnam 

Military clears villagers from flood-prone areas as Ketsana grows stronger

Sep 29, 09 11:32 AM CDT


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

5
Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

10
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

15
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

25
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

21
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

17
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

11
Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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