From next January, registering a new firm should be a question of days, not weeks, with just one point of contact with the bureaucracy, rather than the current parade through dozens of sticky-fingered offices.

ECONOMIST: A survey of Russia

Now, broadening out, in terms of -- we have made it clear from the first time you and others asked me about this question of a no-fly zone weeks ago, that we are actively considering it and it is an option the President insisted would be on the table.

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On another level, this connects back to the big question that Jay Rosen asked a couple of weeks ago: what is behind the precipitous decline in public trust in the news media?

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Whether this sense of renewal can survive a couple more weeks of debate, and carry Afghanistan forward, is another question.

ECONOMIST: Afghanistan

There is no question of their staying at the ashram for a required two weeks.

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Rambourg just returned from a couple of weeks of meetings with investors where the question he was repeatedly asked was: What do we buy on a weak euro and how do we avoid having exposure to the European consumer.

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To help answer that question, The Economist will over the next six weeks publish a series of case studies of mergers, most of which happened at least two years ago so that lessons can safely be drawn.

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"We have been truly bunkered down for three weeks, " Greifeld said in response to a question about the timing of his deal so closely on the heels of the NYSE transaction.

FORBES: Not So Fast, Big Board

Weeks did not question whether the crime was committed by Robinson, who was convicted of killing a white, 17-year-old teen -- Erik Tornblom.

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