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Today's high prices, unlike those of the 1970s, aren't the product of a passing shock. There's reason to expect more increases over the long haul. What prices do in coming months, though, is anybody's guess...
...Breaking all previous records, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards have spent tens of millions of dollars in Iowa, hiring hundreds of paid staffers and today offering rides and babysitting, even snow shovels, to get out the vote. Yet it remains anyone's guess who will come out on top when the votes are counted later this evening...
...supporters are just as defiant. "We cannot accept [the election result]," says Otieno, the Kibera businessman. He vows that if the march does not go ahead as planned, there will be worse conflicts to come. "We will go peacefully into town. But if the police interfere, you can guess what will happen. All hell will break loose...
...were asked to guess John Andreas' profession, the words "fine-art auctioneer" would probably not come to mind. There's no bespoke suit or Etonian comportment. Instead, the burly Andreas sports cheap slacks, an off-the-rack polyester shirt and the mercantile mannerisms of a hard-bitten trader. Yet the former Indonesian shipping agent happens to be the founder and CEO of Borobudur Auction; in October his four-year-old company fetched $6.89 million at a Singapore sale of contemporary and modern Southeast Asian art. The figure was just $200,000 less than the highest figure taken at similar sales...
...Doing well in Iowa] should help up in New Hampshire. We understand that geographically there are three candidates that ought to do better than us in New Hampshire. John McCain is a very familiar product there, well-respected, strong organization, he's been running there for 12 years, I guess, or at least 10 years. So he has been there a while...