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...People are fed up with Cynthia McKinney," and "it crosses racial boundaries," said Jeff Dickerson, an African-American constituent of McKinney's and a panelist on the political TV talk show The Georgia Gang who predicted a tight runoff race. "I think that there's a quiet campaign among African-American voters" against her, he added...
...Lebanese government - even some comically small ones. The bridge at Gharife Bayzoun in the Chouf Mountains, for example, couldn't have had more than a 15 ft. span over a dry creek. But when the Israelis took it out two days ago, they also cut a water main that fed some 45 villages in the Kharrob district. "They have no way of getting water, from here all the way to the eastern part of Sidon," said Ghaleb Abu Howdan, 34, a food supply salesman, who lives in the house next to the now mangled bridge...
...already at a 16-year high largely because of surging fuel costs. Consumer prices of all stripes rose at an annualized rate of 5.2% in May--enough to take some of the fun out of shopping. But Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, is on the case. The Fed raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point last month, the 17th straight increase, in its efforts to gently brake the economy by reining in spending. Retail sales fell ever so slightly in June, according to a Commerce Department report, but consumers hoarding money just...
...fightinghas helped batter the stock market; the S&P 500 is down 5% since early May. And rates are rising overseas as well. "It's not just the Federal Reserve," says Chris Burdick, director of economic analysis at Charles Schwab. "It's central banks across the globe." Until the Fed gives clear signals that it will stop the cycle of rate hikes--Bernanke took a wait-and-see attitude last month--expect volatile times for stocks...
...what Christian work should be about. That's what Jesus reads in his first public act. In Luke, he walks into the synagogue and reads from Isaiah. It talks about a vision of the reign of God where those who are mourning are comforted, where the hungry are fed, where the poor hear good news...