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...hours of talks over a four-month period, Bahr and Gromyko drafted a treaty for a mutual renunciation of force. But in West Germany, the opposition Christian Democrats attacked the plan as a sellout, because Bahr's draft, among other things, failed to affirm Germany's right to eventual reunification. In an effort to arouse popular opposition to the talks, somebody, apparently a Brandt enemy high in the government, leaked excerpts from the Bahr-Gromyko paper to Hamburg's sex-and-scandal newspaper Bild-Zeitung...
...early August, American Home Mortgage, a mortgage lender with little subprime exposure, declared bankruptcy, stoking speculation that troubles are bound to spread to securities backed by higher-quality mortgages. It didn't help when lenders Countrywide and Washington Mutual subsequently issued dire warnings about losing liquidity because so few people want to buy mortgages on the secondary market right now. "One of the most interesting things is, we don't know who's going to suffer," says Karl Case, a housing economist at Wellesley College. "Obviously, the people who get foreclosed against suffer. That goes without saying. But who bears...
President George W. Bush and his French counterpart bonded over burgers last Saturday, after President Nicolas Sarkozy dropped by the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. There was no mistaking the sharp contrast in atmospherics in comparison to the mutual disdain that Presidents Bush and Jacques Chirac reserved for one another. But while hopes are up for a less fraught relationship between Paris and Washington, the feel-good manner in which the two men have agreed to disagree on international affairs may not prevent those differences from sparking new trans-Atlantic tensions when it comes to the crunch...
That feeling is mutual: Clinton first met him in person when she was First Lady of Arkansas, but they became close when she was First Lady of the United States. She needed some pastoral care of her own in 1998, at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and became the latest public figure to sense Graham's unique attraction to the occupants of the Oval Office. He was, she concluded, a political junkie himself. "He loved elections," she told us, "because he knew that you had to tell a story, you had to connect with people--all the things...
...other reggae purists, most of the homophobia has been generated by dancehall music - the genre's aggressive offspring - and is not considered to be a true example of the reggae ideals of peace and mutual tolerance...