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...Still, for the long haul, Lockhart thinks it would be a bad move to permanently nationalize the two firms. Instead, he prefers returning them to the private market, perhaps in the form of something close to a public utility that would charge a fee to homeowners or lenders to subsidize lower mortgage rates...
...particularly charged finding is that in most species besides humans, same-gender pairings rarely lead to lifelong relationships. In other words, when one attractive bonobo male eyes another in a lovely patch of Congo swamp forest, they occasionally kiss and then move on to other oral pleasures, but they don't bother anyone afterward about trying to legalize their right to an open-banana-bar ceremony. In fact, they are likely to move on to girl bonobos: most animals that engage in same-gender sex acts do so only when an opposite-sex partner is unavailable...
...fundamental problem is that employment is the backbone of the U.S. resettlement program. Refugees are expected to find work when they arrive in the U.S. and to move as quickly as possible toward self-sufficiency, a system tailored to an economy with plentiful jobs. When jobs dry up, as they have now, the system collapses, Carey said...
...that body can be formed. If it is, it must study the burqa and reasons why those women who wear it do so, and consider recommendations whether to ban it. Drafting and voting legislation to that end would take months. Before then, public debate would rage on whether the move is merited - or another example of intolerance toward Islam. "Tolerance of the burqa requires a colonial view of Islam as so backwards that forcing a woman to erase herself that way seems natural," Bouzar argues. "The burqa debate isn't secularity vs. Islam, but manipulation and oppression vs. dignity...
...This is a joke," said Arizona Senator John McCain. "This is the most incredible markup I've been to in my years in the Senate and in Congress. I suggest we not move forward until we have some provision on how we're going to pay for it." New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg added that he didn't know who had written what he had seen of the bill, "but if it had been Rube Goldberg, Ira Magaziner [the architect of the failed 1994 Clinton health-care plan] and Karl Marx, you might have gotten this product...