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...help. The county is desperate. As of July, it had recorded 15,803 foreclosure proceedings for 2008 compared to 13,695 in all of 2007. Indeed, the need in the area is so great that a third of all requests for assistance come from outside West Palm Beach - and cannot qualify for assistance...
...change. My cross-strait policy is the most popular among people here. But we have encountered the worst economic storm in many years; what has happened in the U.S. has affected our economy to a very great extent. All I can do is provide more aid to people who cannot resist the impact ... What we are trying to do is open up, deregulate, liberalize as much as possible. All of these measures are intended to make Taiwan a more competitive area in our part of the world. We'll have a difficult time, maybe even into next year, but eventually...
...After the Rogers parade, Franken rides an hour to the Chisago County Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party BBQ, where he asks the jazz band of elderly men to play him in. In front of 50 people, he delivers his stump speech about how kids he meets in high schools cannot remember an America that is respected in the world. Then he jogs off to serve hot dogs. Standing nearby is Jim Oberstar, a Democrat in the House since 1975, who marvels at how hard Franken has worked the state. Oberstar has given Franken only one bit of advice, which he delivered...
...provocative foreign-policy pronouncements have not furthered Iran's aims. "One can talk to the world in much better ways," he says. In June, President Bush won consideration from European leaders for tougher sanctions on Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium-enrichment activities. Ahmadinejad scoffed, "The enemy cannot do anything. All their plans have failed." The same month, Ahmadinejad's government shut down Tehran Emrooz, a paper supporting Qalibaf, after it published a series of articles sharply critical of the president's policies...
...that suggested they may actually be under the International Olympic Committee's 16-year-old age minimum. The IOC was satisfied with passports produced by the International Federation of Gymnastics for the girls, showing they are 16. But Karolyi remains doubtful - and critical. "I have no proof, so I cannot say they are underage," she said. "If that is true - which it possibly could be because one of the little girls has a missing tooth - then it is totally unfair because it doesn't give an even playing field for people all over the world...