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...gulf, has been waiting five months for Capital One to retroactively reduce its credit-card rate from 15.9% - even after a lawyer for the reserves sent a stern letter three months ago warning the company that failure to do so is "a federal crime and a civil wrong." By contrast, some financial institutions - among them, Citibank - are forgiving all interest, minimum payments and fees for cardholders on active duty...
When it comes to American deaths in Gulf War II, U.S. officials are quite precise. In the first three weeks of fighting, 110 U.S. troops were killed. The Iraqi body count, by contrast, is a mystery. When American forces first pushed into Baghdad, for example, they boasted of killing as many as 3,000 enemy fighters. The release of that number may have been an effort to rattle the Iraqis. But the estimate was little more than what the military calls a WAG, a wild-assed guess. The Iraqi side can't do much better. No longer does an authority...
...epileptic - and both reportedly were prone to depression. But neither was terminally ill, according to relatives. In Zurich, the Stokes were greeted by staff members from Dignitas, an assisted-suicide group in Switzerland, where the practice is legal - for patients suffering "intolerable health problems." (In Belgium, by contrast, patients must be terminally ill.) Assuming their experience was like that of their other clients, the Dignitas staff then took the Stokes to see founder Ludwig Minelli, to verify their wish to die. A doctor who had reviewed their records prescribed a toxic dose of barbiturates, and the couple was taken...
...desperate that he collects old East German packages and refills them with Western products. "That's how far they have reduced us," says a staunch communist neighbor when he sees Alex searching through trash cans looking for empty containers. Becker describes the film as a "sad comedy," in contrast to other films about the East such as the 1999 hit Sonnenallee, a more slapstick look at life under communism. "Comedy always has a serious basis," Becker says. "The people we're all laughing at don't feel like laughing, while we in the audience have to laugh." Becker says...
...with a sizable investment may get up to three million bpd in a few years. At a projected an average price of $25 a barrel (which may be very optimistic) this would be only enough to provide each Iraqi citizen $1,125 per year. Contrast this to Kuwait, where oil sales could provide every man, woman and child over $10,000 a year. In order to raise the living standards of the average Iraqi oil, revenue will have to be one pillar used as a base to build a modern economy and not a magic elixir capable of creating...