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From the ashes, fire: “Dumped by Wall Street giants, bankers are landing at firms such as Mesirow, Knight and Stifel. The transplants–and their new employers–are exploiting the market disarray by trying to win new clients…’The carnage of last year is going to open up the playing field for all of these guys.’”

This seems unwise: “The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar with the investigation.”

Wehner and Gerson offer their thoughts. “Behind and beyond all these difficulties, the GOP has been facing even more fundamental problems. The first might be called the curse of policy success…A second problem is demographic.” Much of their solutions are tied to outward “reform,” but has the Republican Party reformed itself internally yet?

“Two Afghan United Nations staff members were killed and another was wounded, the UN said. Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the blast in a telephone conversation with the Associated Press.” The bombings that have already claimed other lives should be expected to continue in the run up to Thursday’s elections.