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...other convention in Minneapolis had its own eyebrow-raising moments. You may think equating opposition to a war with some fanciful will to surrender is a trick so old it must be collecting dust away from the top levels of American politics. If so, Senator Lindsey Graham proved you wrong, when he announced: “Barack Obama’s campaign is built around us losing in Iraq.” It may be a red-meat line to the base, but this is certainly not a fact...
...bandwagon may not, in the end, make a lot of political difference. For starters, the Senate compromise bill will face several hurdles when it comes to the floor next week (some Democrats worry that it may be scuttled by a group of Senators headed by McCain's friend Lindsey Graham of South Carolina). And even if the Senate bill does pass, Democratic aides admit that at this late date, it may have as little impact on voters as drilling itself will have on gas prices by Election...
...times as likely to enter into foreclosure as people who made downpayments and could document their ability to pay. "This poor performance in the subprime market calls into question the capabilities of lenders, securitizers and investors to reliably estimate peak charge-off rates," warned Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co. and Joseph R. Mason, a finance professor at Drexel University in a paper in early 2007. When all the indicators went bad - delinquencies and interest rates up, home prices down - the agencies started yanking the ratings on CDOs by the carload. As the number of subprime delinquencies started...
...Pacific Islander presence in ?The Country?s Premier Winter Sports Competition? applies to rugby league and rugby union, but the dominant football code nationwide is Australian Rules [Sept. 8]. In that code Maori and Pacific Islanders are seldom seen, but the number of Aboriginal players is growing rapidly. Jeffrey Graham, Geelong, Victoria...
...Creative connectivity was the festival's theme. Some artists, like Samoan-New Zealander Graham Fletcher, found the similarities between cultures more striking than their differences. Sharing accommodation with Maori and Tongan artists in the New Zealand compound, "We spent all night talking, basically," Fletcher recalls. "It's amazing the connection between all of our languages and customs and everything. We're much closer than we think...