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A good portion of the aid will go toward reconstruction of the disaster area. Who will do the work? What will be rebuilt? Who will own the new construction? Sticky questions. Let's hope that in a couple of years journalists will compare what they find in those areas with...
What impressed people as "calm" was really a presidential strength: control. Carson was the master of the small gesture, and he would figuratively disarm himself by resting his hands in his pockets. That only made him stronger. He could hold us with both hands literally behind his back. His next...
Nationally, the average commission on a house sale has slipped to 5.1% from 5.5% a few years ago, in part because discounters are making a dent. Nonetheless, house prices are rising so fast that agents are stuffing their pockets as never before. The Department of Justice is reviewing the new...
Two new players in the market are adding travel bags and ergonomic mats to their roster of products. Tumi, a leading luggage and business-case brand, just introduced a line of yoga bags, seen here, with special features to facilitate traveling with yoga gear. "We wanted to address women's...
To be honest, Montesquieu's writing style has never helped his case for a wide readership. His dense, often confounding 1748 masterpiece The Spirit of the Laws can seem a ramshackle mansion, honeycombed with a floor plan impossible to master; Voltaire called it "a labyrinth without a thread." Likewise, while...