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Dubai officials insist that they can meet their debt obligations for the next two years. But the credit squeeze clearly compounds some growing challenges to Dubai's revenue streams. The most obvious of these is the plummeting price of oil, from $147 to less than $65 per bbl. since July, rendering regional investors increasingly cautious as they dial down their expectations of untold wealth. And a global recession is likely to tighten the belts of the foreign investors and vacationers who have driven demand for Dubai's real estate and tourism developments...
...campaign in large measure because they feel invisible, that they have just been overlooked and marginalized in ways that undermine their hopes for the future and their capacity to realize their own dreams." And, her advisers note, there is another constituency for whom there is no more obvious leader. Female voters, says a close ally, are an "awakened group of women who have no logical leader. It's hers for the asking...
...Unlike many athletes, it is quite obvious that Richardson has yet to suffer from a sophomore slump. Yet, while the number of accolades increases by each season, Richardson realizes that she still has quite a long way to go, in terms of polishing her skills as a runner...
...brought the house down with her believable, bubbly blondeness and uncanny similarity to the original Elle, Reese Witherspoon. Filling those knee-high patent pink leather tie-up boots is no doubt a demanding job. Arduous fans of the 2001 film will find her very obvious efforts to replicate every last one of Witherspoon’s somewhat inimitable facial expressions (largely dependent on the famous chiseled chin and popped rosy cheeks) charming and quite startlingly successful. And while Gulsvig brings nothing new to the table physically, she sings and dances and pouts and struts and costume-changes with inhumane speed...
...obvious question: Who could possibly be undecided at this point? McCain and Obama have been running for President for nearly two years. For those of us who follow politics, it's difficult to imagine that, at this late date, a voter could learn anything dispositive about these two men. In fact, we know them a little too well. We know that Obama has a thing for nicotine and that McCain acted like a cad with his first wife. We know the Senators' tics and mannerisms, their preferred methods of verbal indirection, their expressions when they're angry or surprised...