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...doomsday predictions. And for every bubble guy, there's one who thinks prices overall are about right, given mortgage rates that are still low by historic standards and other measures of affordability. "My view is that the run-up of home prices has been driven by the fundamentals," says Dick Peach, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He figures we'll have a soft landing...
Landis tested positive for abnormal testosterone levels, a result confounding and dumbfounding, given that a number of prerace favorites were tossed from the Tour under a cloud of doping suspicion. Could he have been so brazen--or stupid? "I hoped there was a genuine hero in the making," says Dick Pound, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), who is quick to add that people shouldn't convict Landis right away. Still, it's painful. "Oh God," he says, "another nosebleed for the sport...
That kind of intense, early focus on Iowa--whose caucuses kick off the voting each presidential year--is not new. During the 1988 campaign, Democrat Dick Gephardt of Missouri even had his mother move from her St. Louis home into a Des Moines apartment--a better base from which to woo the state's elderly voters. The difference this year is that "people are coming in earlier and more often than they ever have," says Gordon Fischer, former head of the Iowa Democratic Party. The influx reflects a wide-open contest for the White House. For the first time since...
Aaron Friedberg, a Princeton professor and former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, attacked the pair harshly, using much the same tone of language as the early critics...
...time when ideological purity often seems to guide our nation's leaders more than any other consideration, it is almost quaint that a prominent public official would pay attention to his daughter's advice, no matter how informed. Vice President Dick Cheney, for one, appears unmoved by the views of his daughter Mary, a lesbian whose outspoken support for gay rights hasn't kept him from consistently backing right-wing positions at odds with equality for gays. Sure, he broke with the President on a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, but his stance that each state should decide whether gays...