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Mark Twain and Will Rogers shared a sentiment. As Twain said, "Buy land, they're not making it anymore...
...would have been interesting to ask each man what he thought about the value of the toxic assets on bank balance sheets. Unlike land, toxic assets can multiply. And, unlike land, the value of toxic assets may never rebound, although analysts differ on that subject. (See pictures of Mark Twain...
...vote last August, in which Morales won 67% national approval, Sunday showed that Bolivia's east/west regional divide that brought the country to the brink of civil war last September remains. The constitution was heavily rejected in the eastern lowlands of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija where wealthy land and business owners dominate local politics. Criticism ranged from the constitution's elimination of Catholicism's privileged position as official religion to worry about "extreme indigenous power...
Compromise may in fact have already been key in the constitution's passage. An earlier version allowed for expropriation of large estates - a hot button issue in a country where less than one percent of the population owns more than two thirds of the land. But negotiations resulted in leaving the current holdings as is and limiting future landownership. On Sunday voters had a choice between limiting ownership to 10,000 or 25,000 acres per person limit. They voted 75% in favor of the former...
...ridicule that the state of Illinois has suffered since the corruption scandal of its governor was first revealed, for all the jokes made at the expense of the Land of Lincoln's long, sordid history of graft, there is one thing that is often overlooked: Rod Blagojevich is the first governor of the state to be impeached...