Word: deserter
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...Back east, the luxury condo markets that have had similarly explosive growth in Miami and New York, where high-end apartments can command from $2,000 to $4,000 a square foot, haven?t slumped yet. Still, experts say the abrupt reversal of fortune in the desert, where the mainstream residential real estate and hotel markets are still quite healthy, shows just how quickly the odds can change in even the most affluent markets if runaway speculation and overzealous development take hold. ?It?s another case of irrational exuberance,? says John Restrepo, head of a Las Vegas real estate...
...says a nationalist field commander near Ramadi, al-Zarqawi's lieutenants made it clear that any Iraqi who joined the security forces was considered the enemy, thus drawing a battle line between the jihadis and their former comrades. In Latifiya, outside Baghdad, al-Zarqawi's fighters pressed Sunnis to desert a mixed Sunni-Shi'ite battalion under U.S. command. When the Sunnis refused, al-Qaeda shelled the camp with mortars. Local insurgents responded by hunting down al-Qaeda's chief for southern Baghdad and killing him and four Syrian fighters...
...Obviously, Jill is not a ?guest? in the ordinary sense, but many Iraqis have told me that anybody who shares a roof with them - even a mortal enemy - is covered by the ancient desert code of hospitality. This is not a fanciful notion: I have myself been protected by the code in situations where my interlocutors might otherwise have wanted to do me harm...
...Alexander uses guided imagery to help clients get back in touch with their creativity and reduce performance anxiety. "I help them visualize a comfortable, safe place," he says, "and we explore a forest, a meadow, a desert or the wide-open sky?symbols of the white page of a script or an empty screen. What locks people up is the feeling that they have to create something, which comes from the narcissistic need to be affirmed...
...residents in an area. Without a concentration of neighborhoods, many areas will not have convenient grocery stores, neighborhood schools, or other critical resources. If an area fails to attract a critical mass within 12 months, which many of the districts likely will not, residents will be forced to desert their homes. The federal government buyout program—which would compensate residents at pre-Katrina market value for their property—would foot the bill for relocation and convert the region to marshland. Mayor Nagin’s approval of this report will be an invitation for catastrophe...