Monday, November 28, 2011 CAIRO -- Polls have opened in Egypt's first free, democratic elections since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak, with a sense of optimism, despite two weeks of deadly violence that threatened to mar the event. BLOG POSTS  | Sahar Aziz: Rule Of Law, Not Rule By Law for Egypt
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Among today's entrepreneurs, few were a part of the wave of tiny private businesses that appeared in the mid-'90s, so they have no memory of the trauma of being shut down, of governmental will strangling them. |  | Jared Bernstein: What's the Risk From a Country Leaving the Eurozone?
The more we learn about this one, the better. No one knows the likelihood of, say, Greece, to pull an example out of the air, pulling out of the Eurozone and reverting to the drachma. I'd guess not, but the potential is obviously real and growing. |  | Ben Affleck: Going Back to Congo
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