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...slightly surprising last week to watch al-Maliki appear to bite the hand that made him. In an unexpectedly angry response last week to questions about the Haditha slayings, al-Maliki accused U.S. forces of misconduct even beyond the actions of the Marines last...
...games aside to face a looming challenge for every new retail concept: once your idea proves itself, competitors flock, knowing that the initial risk has been taken. Roth is now facing serial cereal challengers--he calls them copycats--that have popped up looking for their own bite of this emerging restaurant segment. And like siblings squabbling over the last bowl of Froot Loops, the eateries are getting into a messy fight...
...college, like high school, is understood to be a phase in one’s education of a prescribed length, undertaken with peers who are similar in age and inexperience. Engineering programs, which can force an added semester—or more—on their students, take a bite out of this part of the college philosophy.By creating a quasi-independent School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard institutionalizes the distinctions between undergraduate engineers and their College peers, posing an added threat to Harvard’s effort to fulfill its liberal arts mission for all of its students...
...enterprise retains its blithe bite nearly three quarters of a century later. It has a smiling contempt for the electoral process and an acute ear for political B.S. Realizing that stump speechifying is the art of couching nonsense in stentorian cadences, they have a Southern Senator intone this bilgewater: "Not for us the entangling alliances of Europe, not for us the allying entanglances of Asia." Wintergreen, who gets high marks for oratory if not for geography, tells voters that he has campaigned "in the cornfields of Kansas, on the plains of Arizona, in the mountains of Nebraska...
...your adjustable-rate loan is still new, the higher rates haven't yet taken a bite, but the years ahead may be nerve-racking. According to the National Association of Realtors, the median first-time home buyer's deposit last year was just 2% of the price, while 43% of first-timers put down nothing. That means those real estate newbies will eventually face a sizable chunk of loan principal paired with growing interest payments. If you can't sell before your initial low rates expire, you may want to refinance into a new kind of hybrid loan, such...