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...Resort. Nestled in a forest in the popular South Carolina vacation spot, it boasts 400 landscaped lots, with access to a pool, exercise room and tennis courts. Each lot has satellite TV and electricity, water and sewage hookups, for a rental fee of about $50 a night or an outright purchase price of around...
...government that would support him in his campaign against extremism, the U.S.'s tepid response to Musharraf's "coup" has only exacerbated his inability to effect change, critics argue. "The amazing part was the lukewarm reaction of Condoleezza Rice," fumed Haider. "What nonsense that was. They should have registered outright contempt. These extra-constitutional measures by General Musharraf are not in the interest of the war on terror, U.S. foreign policy or the protection of the Pakistani people. All these measures were tailor-made to suit Musharraf. He is drowning, and he is trying to take Pakistan with...
...Even with the perceived benefits of experience, few appeared ready to concede the presidency to Sundquist outright...
...fighting to obtain the rights to their own published works so that they can be used free of charge, the library system has to continue to pay indefinitely.“Most digital resources are licensed—we purchase access to the materials, rather than owning them outright,” Dan C. Hazen, associate librarian of Harvard College for collection development, writes in an e-mail. This means that once the payments stop, the access to information stops too. In addition, these electronic resources are licensed for the entire community, which creates even more problems...
...allow them to take power across the region, especially when America remains disengaged. Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, the everlasting Castro in Cuba, and Kirchner in Argentina have all benefited from Chavez’s petrodollars in the form of infrastructure deals, bond buy-outs, and outright gifts. And yet, even for self-declared neo-socialists like the Venezuelan president, there is no such thing as a free lunch. With different degrees of support, all these leaders are involved in the “Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas,” conveniently named to equal...