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...Dressed in a dark suit and looking sullen, the former army chief announced his resignation in a hastily arranged live televised address. "I hope the nation and the people will forgive my mistakes," he said, his voice thick with emotion. "Every decision I made was only with noble intentions...
...coming, though I hope not soon: Woody Allen will die, and commentators will declare him one of the great American comic filmmakers - maybe not even comic; just great, period. The judicious long view, and postmortem sentiment, will allow critics to ignore or rationalize the dip in the quality of Allen's films from the mid-'90s, or whenever they once declared the fall-off began. Instead they will concentrate on the official classics, especially Annie Hall and Manhattan, and on Allen's amazingly predictable productivity: since the mid-70s he has averaged a film a year as writer-director...
...vacant homes deteriorate and become eyesores throughout the country, cities are anxiously awaiting the arrival of federal funds - including a $4 billion housing stimulus jolt just signed by the President - to assist with the foreclosure crisis. The hope is that the federal injection of funds will help homeowners struggling to make mortgage payments. In South Florida, one of the worst hit areas of the country, the help can't come soon enough. And one local government is already off to a fast start in dealing with the wide variety of foreclosure hardships that make up the crisis...
That leaves much of the oil in the world's third largest reserves effectively off-line for the time being and hopes for a sharp drop in prices at the pump in Iraq, the United States and around the world still distant. "This is a hope," says al-Ueaibi of Iraq's potential rise in oil production. "Let's say hopeful wishing...
...unable to talk to each other. We have to change that, and we may be able to change that in the next couple of months so that we can save fuel and time. Then we open up direct navigation between the seaports in China and Taiwan. Next year we hope to negotiate an air-transport agreement with the mainland to convert the weekend charters to everyday charters and then to scheduled flights just like everywhere else in the world. Beyond that we are now working on a comprehensive economic-cooperation agreement that will cover a large range of issues from...