U.S. public opinion has been on the side of ending the occupation for some time. The only hitch has always been whether Iraqis “still needed us.” Now the prime minister is saying, in effect, that they will not in the near future. Despite this good news, a “Republican strategist who occasionally provides advice to the McCain campaign” told reporter Marc Ambinder that the news meant, simply, .
Can the bad news for banks get any worse? After the last week brought another round of woeful quarterly results from the industry, capped by news on Tuesday of multibillion-dollar losses at the Wachovia Corporation and Washington Mutual , that question is nagging banking executives and their investors.
Born into a controversial family, Max Mosley has always been close to the public eye - never more so than in his recent privacy action against the News of the World. Here we trace his life in pictures