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Visit WSJ.com at U.S. | EUROPE | ASIA News by section: Front Section | Opinion | | Front Section |   FRONT SECTION 1 Anti-Japan Protests Mount in China Angry crowds across China ransacked Japanese businesses, smashed Japanese cars and pelted Tokyo's embassy in Beijing with eggs and plastic bottles in weekend protests over disputed islands in the East China Sea. • Panetta Aims to Defuse Japan Conflicts • Japan's Prime Minister Condemns Rallies • Photos: Protests Erupt in China The Return of Facebook's Winklevoss Twins The Winklevoss twins, famed for their litigation with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook, are using some of their settlement money to invest in another social-network site, this one for professional investors. 2 • What's News   3 • Spain Is Reluctant to Make More Cuts   4 • After Poisonings, Czech Republic Bans Hard Liquor • Anglo-Saxon With a European Accent   5 • BRUSSELS BEAT: Slow Path to Policing Europe Banks • Tens of Thousands in Anti-Putin Rally in Moscow • Poland Looks for Ways to Boost Growth   6 • For Mexico, an Edge on China • Romney Seeks Traction in Swing States   7 • Panetta Targets Two Pacific Disputes • Reappearance of Xi Eases Transition Concerns   8 • Coordinated Taliban Raid Penetrates Base • Internal Rifts Color Anti-U.S. Protests • Pope Urges Peace at Mass in Beirut   9 • OPEC Looks to the Sun for Strength   10 • Shale-Gas Boom Hits Eastern Europe   11 • In Iran, the Wind Blows Free. Of Sanctions, That Is.   12 • Making Sense of the U.S. Oil Boom   13 • A New Use for Shale Gas   14 • Illegal Immigration Emerges as New Crisis for Greece—And EU   OPINION 16 Bernanke Unbounded The Fed enters a brave new world of unlimited monetary easing. Romney's Trade Pessimism Protectionism won't beat Obama's class warfare. Mitt needs a politics of growth. Speech of the Week Another regulator comes out for regulatory simplicity. 17 OPINION •  HUSAIN HAQQANI: Husain Haqqani: Manipulated Outrage and Misplaced Fury • BUSINESS WORLD: Jenkins: Bradley Birkenfeld, Hero of Tax Reform   18 OPINION • Tehran at the Book Fair • POTOMAC WATCH: Strassel: Mr. Romney, Trust Your Pants   FRONT SECTION 29 PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY Kindle Fire HD Is Better but It Isn't the Best Color Tablet Amazon's Kindle Fire HD is slimmer, lighter and more stylish profile than its predecessor, with great speakers, but it doesn't beat the iPad as a tablet, writes Walter S. Mossberg. 30 • AC Milan Gets What It Paid For • Tip of the Day   31 • Fur Flies at Contests That Turn Pooches Into Zombies, Pandas, Cows View the latest What's News Online Past Editions of In Today's Paper 19 Daiwa Lifts Curtain on Insider Allegations A previously unseen report from Daiwa Securities Group shows the extent of the rush inside brokerage to allegedly provide clients market-sensitive information and, more broadly, opens a window on the environment that allowed widespread insider trading in Japan. Deal Promises Lagardère an Exit Airbus parent European Aeronautic Defence & Space's potential merger with BAE Systems would bring a chance to replace EADS Chairman Arnaud Lagardère, as well as give the French media mogul's Lagardère SCA an opportunity to sell its 7.5% EADS stake. Wanted in Europe: More Truck Drivers Road-haulage operators across Europe are finding it difficult to recruit enough drivers for the vehicles on which much of the region's trade still depends. 20 • Fiat Faces Growing Pressure Over Vow to Expand • Corrections & Amplifications   21 • Defense Merger to Push Rival Deals?   22 • Gun Sales Hinge on Obama Re-Election • Soccer Still the Main Event for Advertisers   23 • Kingfisher Focuses on the Next Stage   24 • ABREAST OF THE MARKET: Yield-Starved Investors Snap Up Riskier MLPs • Trades After 2008 Meeting Probed   25 • French Shares Enjoy a Central-Bank Tailwind   26 • Fed Move Echoes World-Wide • Trial Puts UBS in Spotlight   32 HEARD ON THE STREET Not Game Over for Bonds Yet Central banks in the U.S. and Europe are going all-in to help boost their economies. But the global growth outlook still looks dismal. HEARD ON THE STREET Fed's Massive Print Run Disguises Deficit There is plenty of worry over the looming "fiscal cliff." Less talked about is the potential for a "Fed cliff." HEARD ON THE STREET For Metals, QE3 Isn't Blockbuster For commodities bulls, QE3 may end up more like "Speed 2," with the initial buzz based on memories of the previous installment ending in a bewildering mess.