I will start back in my childhood. Half the time i grew up in the midwest and have the time in the middle east and other islamic countries. I spent my childhood shuttling between suburban st. Louis and places like chiron and kabul and cairo. I got interested in islamic issues kind of the aesthetically, and then i went on to study them. As a journalist i was frustrated because as much as i tried to write about them i found that the narrative kind of bifurcated. One is that i was writing about strongmen with kalashnikovs, and oppressed women. Those were the two trope i would inevitably get written about. That was when i was writing news stories. When i went on to feature stories, its slightly widened. I was able to write about angst like pakistani punk rock bands or halal energy drinks, or muslim european professionals. And that gave a little bit more bandwidth to the terrorism and bailed woman narrative. Even then it was like, instead of saying, muslims, they are the other, i was saying
Points and the s p, moving the monitor so i cant see it. Up threequarters of a point. And the nasdaq is lower by 31 points. Where are we headed to from here . Lets get to bob pisani on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Bob . Hello, michelle. Were flat because ibm has been a drag and tech has been a drag and the question is can we hit new highs and the key, remember, may be earnings. Markets have moved up. They have been a floor under the market and the market believes that, off the low and china hasnt gone away and its been a lot quieter. Earnings have been the big problem and the missing ingredient. Weve had four consecutive quarters of negative Earnings Growth right now and q2, the one that were in now that everyone is talking about, only down about 3 and its been stable in the last week or so. Not reducing the numbers anymore. We could go positive meaning that ends. Johnson johnson and Philip Morris raised their guidance on the weaker dollar helping how the. This week its go
The big storm, katrina ten years after the storm. Thousands are dying to reach europe. The escalating refugee crisis and the faltering response. Hard sell. President obama pitches the Iran Nuclear Deal to groups undecided in congress. Former president george w. Bush returns to new orleans today to deliver a message. He declared that the city is back and better than ever ten years after katrina. It is a story that goes like this one and others that we see the determination to rebuild better than before and its a spirit much stronger than any storm. Its a spirit thats lifted communities, laid low by tornadoes or terrorist attacks. Its a spirit that has saw new orleans ten years ago. That is very evident today. The former president s speech painted a rose colored picture of the recovery but its what he did not say about the failures of his administrations initial response that may speak the loudest. Jonathan martin has reaction from new orleans tonight. Jonathan. Reporter hey, good evenin
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