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...charismatic political neophyte--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Swann is chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, a job Schwarzenegger once held. And he seems to have a similar rock-star aura. "You see him in a crowd, there are people swarming around him," said political analyst Terry Madonna...
...Islamic Saudi Academy (I.S.A.) in northern Virginia while growing up. The eldest of five children, Abu Ali was born in Houston in 1981, but by the time he was 3, his family had settled in suburban Virginia, a short commute from his father's job as a computer systems analyst at the Saudi embassy in Washington. In many ways, young Abu Ali had a fairly typical American upbringing, playing soccer, tutoring other kids, passionately cheering on the Washington Redskins and even dreaming of one day becoming President...
...reckons the sector will be worth $100 billion by 2010. But other Big Pharma firms have sold out of the low-margin generics business in recent years - so is Novartis risking an overdose? In a sector where "the cost of production is really important," says Frances Cloud, senior pharmaceutical analyst at Nomura in London, at least "being big does help...
...with adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs), and that spells opportunity for homeowners. Since June, the Federal Reserve has hiked short-term interest rates six times, and typically long-term rates follow. But the current pattern runs counter to that. "It's surprising," says analyst Greg McBride of bankrate.com The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is now 5.81%, according to HSH Associates, while the average one-year ARM is 4.32%. And the gap is narrowing. Even Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan termed it a "conundrum" in a recent report...
...poll was also examined by Nancy Belden, president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and Michael McDonald, a polling analyst at the non-partisan Brookings Institution...