Word: deal
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Frago, Gary • racist e-mails are forwarded by, but it's no big deal because "I'm not the only one that does it. I didn't originate them, they came to me and I just passed them...
...mayor allegedly taking a bribe to get a construction permit. And then another. And then another. Do schools of corrupt mayors swim off the Jersey shore too? They got a rabbi picking up wads of cash in Brooklyn and laundering the money through a charity at his synagogue in Deal, N.J., on behalf of unknown persons in Israel. And as for petty officials of the Garden State - building inspectors, councilmen, deputy mayors and the like - you could imagine the FBI's relatively small office in Red Bank, N.J. frantically trying to arrange all the necessary surveillance to collect the evidence...
...course, this is abortion politics, so there are still speed bumps ahead. The most immediate is the roiling fight over whether to include coverage for abortion services in health-care reform. Ryan is trying to broker a deal for pro-life Democrats that would basically codify the status quo, in which private insurers are neither required nor prevented from offering abortion services and no federal funding is involved. More than anything, the fight risks aggravating old wounds that could end these newly formed - and still tentative - partnerships and send the bill's many supporters into adversarial camps again...
...finding a formula for sharing Jerusalem, the eastern part of which the Palestinians claim as their future capital, is fundamental to the peace process that Obama has sought to revive; there will be no Palestinian or Arab takers for any deal that leaves all of Jerusalem under Israeli control. So by picking the Holy City as the battleground for a test of wills with Obama, Netanyahu is mounting a broader challenge to the President's peace agenda...
...sector is showing signs of the frothy enthusiasm that is symptomatic of the onset of a bubble. In the Chinese city of Nanjing last month, 3,000 people snapped up tickets for the right to purchase an apartment in a new development with only 600 units. (Read "A New Deal for China...