Word: interesting
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...what degree have you found that covering sporting events for a living has affected your appetite to consume sports as a fan? It changes. I have a casual interest in the NBA. I'm a die-hard NHL fan. I can't get enough. I used to just live and die with college basketball and college football. At some point, you have to concentrate on what you're covering...
...arrive at their forecasts, the Deutsche Bank analysts, led by Karen Weaver, assessed several leading variables, with affordability being a key driver. The pronounced decline in home prices across the nation, coupled with a downward drift in interest rates, has greatly improved nationwide affordability, the report noted. Indeed, in some famously overpriced regions that have since corrected, such as Los Angeles and the Riverside-San Bernardino areas of California, affordability is as good now as it has been in decades. That's a big reason that many California areas may see prices fall only an additional 10% or so, despite...
Iraq and Iran have rarely had the luxury of ignoring each other; in the 1980s, the two fought a bitter eight-year war, and more recently, since the U.S. toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iran has taken an active - and some would argue malign - interest in its neighbor to the west. But while Western leaders and pundits wring their hands over Iran's disputed election, there's been little anguish in Baghdad. (Read "Iran Group in Iraq Poses Thorny Issue...
...lack of information. Iranian TV stations are readily available in Iraq, and the Arabic news channels like al-Jazeera and al-Arabiyah have provided in-depth coverage of the election. And since 60% of the Iraqi population shares Iran's official Shi'a faith, you'd expect an avid interest in the political drama unfolding in Tehran. But many Iraqis say they have not been paying attention. "It's happening next door, but it feels very far away," says Hadi Hussein, a Baghdad shop owner. (See pictures of Iran's presidential elections and their turbulent aftermath...
...turn feed the backroom dealings. For while it is still unlikely that Rafsanjani will make the unprecedented move to remove the Supreme Leader, the more chaotic Iran gets, the more it allows Rafsanjani to find some lever to pull or to do something dramatic. It is in Khamenei's interest, then, to cool down the demonstrations...