Word: checked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lacking, he says. "But when they know that ballots are secret, they will vote how they want to choose." Opinion polls show that 80% of Afghans have an independent voting attitude, he says, but laments the fact that "some leaders are stuck in the old ways of doing politics." (Check out a story about the warlords of Afghanistan...
...Francisco-based site is looking to handle all the details of your online afterlife for $30 a year or a onetime fee of $300. To determine whether you have passed on, the firm will check with two "verifiers" (people you have designated to confirm your death) and examine a death certificate...
...REITs, such as New Century Financial Corp. and American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the past couple of years, and others, such as Arbor Realty Trust and Gramercy Capital, struggling to stay afloat. Even Starwood's newest offering could stir concerns if investors check out the sour performance of one of Sternlicht's previous specialty finance companies, iStar Financial...
...Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff by Erin Arvedlund (Portfolio) carefully details how Madoff's marks, some of them supposedly sharp hedge-fund managers, became feeder funds for Madoff's enterprise by willfully or negligently failing in their due diligence to check out the bogus Madoff claims. "The same people did more research on buying a car than they did on the man who handled their money," she writes...
...Julie & Julia, in fourth place; Katherine Heigl's The Ugly Truth, in eighth; and the she-loves-me-not rom-com (500) Days of Summer, in tenth. Kids could see G-Force (fifth), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (seventh) and the Disney-released Ponyo (ninth). (Check out TIME's Time Traveler's Wife review...