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SELL This is an extreme measure and a bad idea if you plan to stay in your house at least five years. But if you know you'll be moving soon, do it now--or consider selling and then renting nearby for a year or two to lock in what may be peak prices. Don't be in a hurry to jump into another house. Apartment vacancies are running at 9.4% of capacity, the highest in nearly 50 years, reports the Economic Policy Institute. Rents should start coming down...
After a Palestinian activist and suspected terrorist was arrested in Harvard Square just a week before Commencement, the University instituted a “lock-down” during graduation exercises—installing metal detectors at Yard entrances and bringing state and federal agencies such as the National Guard and explosives experts with bomb-sniffing dogs...
...this doesn't necessarily mean that President Bush has a lock on these women or that there are no opportunities for Democrats. "On all kinds of measures, women are more worried than men," says Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg. "They're worried about their personal security, but that doesn't mean soccer moms aren't still concerned about education, health care and social security." The latest TIME/CNN poll indicates that while 63% of Americans continue to approve of the job President Bush is doing overall, only 42% think he's doing enough about unemployment, and just 40% believe he's handling...
Last October another bride, 18, was dragged, resisting, into a guardhouse on one of Uday's properties, according to a maid who worked there. The maid says she saw a guard rip off the woman's white wedding dress and lock her, crying, in a bathroom. After Uday arrived, the maid heard screaming. Later she was called to clean up. The body of the woman was carried out in a military blanket, she said. There were acid burns on her left shoulder and the left side of her face. The maid found bloodstains on Uday's mattress and clumps...
...family friend says the day Uday discovered the Internet was "a black day for Iraqis," because he used it to learn of torture methods from other ages and lands that he decided to try. He would lock victims in coffins for days at a time, says the source, or put them in pillories. According to a family friend, he also liked to have offenders beaten on one side. Then he would order medical tests and have the thrashings continue until the kidney on that side had conclusively failed...