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...economy, which appears to be slowing. But oil and gas reserves are building; their prices will stablize soon. Housing activity will continue to slow-but from a pace that everyone knew was unsustainable. The national median home price rose a blistering 13% last year. The next three years, predicts Doug Duncan, chief economist at the Mortgage Banker?s Association, price gains will equal their long-run average of 5% to 6% each year...
...should be required reading for every politician in the country. You agree on some things and you disagree on others, but you work out the differences with dialogue and respect for each other. That is the way things are supposed to be. What an amazing concept! Doug Weaver Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. Praise and Blame Joe Klein's column "It's Time To Pin A Few Medals," in which he pays "homage to those who have taken risky stands on principle" even when he has disagreed with them, left me feeling as if I were living in an alternate universe...
...DOUG WEAVER Grand Rapids, Mich...
...home as often as he could. But his job frequently kept him in Washington, and the situation left him talking to his colleagues about the influence his father had on him. "He would recount the strenuous efforts his father made to undertake redistricting in a methodical, precise way," says Doug Kmiec, a law professor at Pepperdine University who worked with Alito. "His father gave him a model for how to deal with people in a fair and evenhanded way." Alito Sr. died in 1987 of a heart problem, and dozens who were involved in New Jersey politics attended his wake...
...National Rifle Association, it has one of the country's largest collections of rare and historical guns. More than 2,000 are on display, including those that belonged to Napoleon (an 1800 double flintlock fowler shotgun), cowgirl Annie Oakley and Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, says senior curator Doug Wicklund...