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...negotiated to rent for six months, with first refusal to buy after that, and asked him to fix the place up. But when we came to move in, it was a shambles. New paint was already peeling. Plumbing leaked. I had already paid for half of these so-called renovations, but now we smelled a rat and sought a lawyer. He told us to stall while a title search was made. It wasn't easy, as the deed number had been obscured on the copy the general had given us. But when we were shown the original, we were stunned...
...spent on satellites. CIA directors have complained of this split-screen arrangement for years, noting that they can hardly be responsible for solid intelligence if they don't control the purse strings. Two years ago, Scowcroft, acting as chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, proposed to fix that disconnect once...
...hopes the Brahimi plan will be acceptable by the simple virtue that it wasn't concocted by Americans or their allies on the Governing Council. But members of the post--June 30 government still have to be effectively blessed by foreigners--a point not lost on Iraqis. "They cannot fix a wrong with a wrong," says Salah Hassan Habib, 22, a butcher in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad. "The next government should be elected." The U.N.'s reputation in Iraq is hardly lustrous: ordinary Iraqis suffered for more than a decade under sanctions enacted in the U.N.'s name...
...told TIME. "You've got to fix the problem." A genuine fix means massive job cuts, which requires real political courage in Rome . Just another Catch-22. Ford Has A Better Idea: Profits Has the stalled auto industry turned a corner? Ford last week announced that profits at its global automotive operations almost tripled in the first quarter to $1.8 billion, the first time since 2000 that the Michigan-based carmaker booked more from selling autos than customer financing. Revenues climbed worldwide: spiraling new car registrations in Europe lifted Ford's sales in the region by almost one-third. With...
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