Word: haven
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...There's Internet chatter about a Sopranos movie. What do you think? I haven't heard anything, but they always said if they were going to do it, it was going to be a prequel because most of the characters are dead. It would do insane box office. I'd love to do a Sopranos sequel. Are you kiddin...
...want to see that happen. Since some of those people are in Congress, there's a decent chance the credit will be extended into 2010. Among the bills floating about are ones that would grow the amount to $15,000 and make all home buyers - not just those who haven't owned before - eligible. One policy-analysis shop puts the odds of some extension at 2 to 1, despite a cost that could run as high as $50 billion to $100 billion...
...those people wouldn't have bought houses had it not been for the tax break - about 350,000 or 400,000. In other words, some 80% of buyers would have bought anyway. In many markets, prices have fallen so far that houses are affordable in a way they haven't been in years - that's a reason to buy even without a gift from the government. We're giving up tax revenue on $11 billion that we don't need...
...Iraq may have good reason to be less than trusting. Syria has long been a haven for refugees from around the Arab world, particularly those without clean track records. In the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Syria not only allowed anti-American Baathists to organize and hold political conventions in the country, it also permitted jihadist insurgents from other countries to pass through its territory to launch attacks in Iraq. At the time, American officials compared the region where the Euphrates River crosses the Syria-Iraq border to the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...left disappointed by talks at the Group of 20 summit on Friday. Although world leaders managed to forge some agreement on global warming - despite news of Iran's secret nuclear facility eclipsing most of the discussion at the Pittsburgh summit - greens said little of substance was actually achieved. "They haven't really produced anything that is relevant in terms of active progress," says Kim Carstensen, head of the World Wildlife Fund's Global Climate Initiative. "I'm not that impressed...