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How Does Capital Flight Affect Me?

Anyone who has invested in the stock market - and that's a whopping 43% of American households - can tell you that the American economy is not an island unto itself. Even those who had invested…

Slobodan Milosevic Biography

Slobodan MilosevicSerbian political leaderBorn: 8/29/1941Birthplace: Pozarevac, Yugoslavia A longtime Communist, Milosevic joined the Communist Party when he was 18. He studied law at the…

Brewer's: Musulman

(plural, Musulmans or Moslems)- that is, Moslemin, plural of Moslem. A Mahometan; so called from the Arabic muslim, a believer. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Indonesia's New President

Surprising Upset in Archipelago's First Free Elections By Ricco Villanueva Siasoco This article was posted on October 20, 1999 Newly-elected President Abdurrahman Wahid clasps the hand of rival…

Understanding the Turkey-Kurd Conflict

by Elissa Haney This article was first posted on March 2, 1999. Boys from a Kurdish family herd sheep in Suleymaniya, in northern Iraq. Between 1974 and 1991, Iraq's army evicted…

Bottom Line

Related links: The International Monetary FundThe U.S. SenateThe U.S. House of RepresentativesTreasury & Commerce Analysis Showing Impact of Asian Crisis on Individual StatesThe World…

May 2011 Current Events: World News

U.S. News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of May 2011. Osama bin Laden Is Killed in Pakistan (May 1): U.S. troops and CIA operatives shoot and…