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...principles and high-minded long-term projects in the face of a public demanding easy answers and immediate results. His Middle East-democracy campaign is Wilsonian. His support for the Dubai ports deal is reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's support for relinquishing control of the Panama Canal-difficult to explain politically but in the nation's best long-term interests. Does anyone actually believe that the management suits in Dubai would run those ports any differently from the suits in Britain? Wouldn't the new Arab owners be even more conscious of security, since they wouldn't want their newly...
...MONEY? NO PROB Scraping together the traditional 20% down payment is the biggest hurdle to homeownership, especially with home prices up an average of 54% over the past five years. That may explain why a recent survey by the National Association of Realtors found that a startling 43% of first timers signed up for no-money-down mortgages. But financing 100% of your home exacts some extra costs, like private mortgage insurance, which most lenders require for a down payment of less than 20%. On top of a larger than average down payment, you may also be saddled with...
...both communities. Insurgent groups that have occasionally operated out of Samarra since the fall of Saddam's regime made sure to give al-Askari a wide berth. And when U.S. and Iraqi forces stormed Samarra in October 2004, they took special care not to damage the shrine. Struggling to explain their emotions at the sight of the shattered dome, many Shi'ites cited the U.S. response to the collapsing towers of the World Trade Center. "This is our 9/11," became a common refrain for Shi'ite commentators...
Gere was then ordered to briefly explain the plot of the aforementioned film, but without using the words “Mothman” or “prophecies...
...Marlin's proverb comes to mind because that's pretty much the dividing line in the Dubai Ports controversy this week: between intellect and instinct, between those who say they can explain this deal and those who say there is no explaining...