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Apropos of the Irangate scandal, what's all the fuss about? Why do the pundits expect politics to be lily white? When has politics in any country at any time been that way? Are the ethics of Americans so pure that they can criticize the politicians they put in power? It seems to me that the people expect from politicians a standard of ethics they themselves seldom achieve...
...expect he will do as he did while presiding over the University the last time a major overhaul of the College’s curriculum was carried out,” he wrote. “I expect he will look to the Faculty and their Dean to discuss and put in place the curriculum whose implementation and teaching is their business...
...back is interest; you're not making a dent in the principal until after the interest-only introductory period, typically five or 10 years down the road. So if you bought a $300,000 home, put down 10% and signed a 5.75% interest-only adjustable-rate mortgage, you could expect monthly payments of $1,294. But interest rates are low now. If after five years they inch back up to a more normal 8.75%, you would find yourself staring at a $2,200 monthly mortgage payment. Whose bright idea was that...
...prefer the North American ending or the British one? The British one' -- cause you expect them to kiss at the end, and in the British one they don't. I think that's kind of lovely...
...days after the Securitas job, there was a copycat raid in Belfast, where a gang held a bank employee's wife and child hostage while they rifled the safe. But don't expect all this to start a trend. Among villains, bank raids are old hat. The tricky thing about robbing banks is, you have to actually go somewhere (risking witnesses and closed-circuit-television cameras) and steal things that have a real weight and presence, like jewels or money. These days, it's easier and safer by far to sit in some semitropical Margaritaville, fire up the laptop...