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WASHINGTON, D.C. — During his short tenure as manager of the Washington Nationals, Manny Acta witnessed 28 members of Congress lose their jobs due to poor performances; you’d think he’d have gotten the memo. Instead, he led the Nats to the worst first half of the baseball season in their history—and was promptly fired himself...
...inclusion of ForbesLife). But as a weekly, the McGraw-Hill publication has higher editorial and production costs than the other two. And they all have much bigger expenses than the legion of websites that offer business journalism exclusively online - daily, even hourly. Industry experts estimate Business Week could lose $20 million in 2009. (See the best and worst TIME magazine covers...
...based on interest rates, your age and the value of your home. (Use the calculator at rmaarp.com for an estimate.) There are no credit or income requirements to get a reverse mortgage, but you must be able to keep up with property taxes and insurance bills--or you could lose your home. The up-front costs are high. Generally, $10,000 to $15,000 in fees are lopped off the amount you can borrow. Finally, if someone is pressuring you to take one of these loans in order to buy something else, that's a huge red flag. Walk away...
...wonder, perhaps because of the bad dreams he was having as American casualties mounted, whether the war could actually be won--no matter how smart we were. Then he began to understand that as long as we were in Vietnam and willing to fight and die, we could not lose--but also that we could not win, that the war was an open-ended stalemate...
...central to my own and that of my country as Bob McNamara's, one overriding lesson bombards my mind: nationalist wars, civil wars, tribal and religious wars--they can never be won by Americans. As long as we're there and willing to fight and die, we won't lose. But in the end, we can't win either unless we realize that it must be their war--a war for the South Vietnamese to fight for their freedom and a war for Afghans to fight for theirs. We can help, but it must be theirs...