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...modern image of the middle class comes from the post-World War II era. The 1944 GI Bill provided returning veterans with money for college, businesses and home mortgages. Suddenly, millions of servicemen were able to afford homes of their own for the first time. As a result, residential construction jumped from 114,000 new homes in 1944 to 1.7 million in 1950. In 1947, William Levitt turned 4,000 acres of Long Island, New York, potato farms into the then largest privately planned housing project in American history. With 30 houses built in assembly-line fashion every day - each...
...Next came a Washington Post investigation into the life and death of Abdallah Saleh al-Ajmi. Upon his release in November 2005 after four years at Gitmo, al-Ajmi became a suicide bomber, eventually driving an explosive-laden truck into an Iraqi army base near Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi soldiers and injuring many more. This, exclaimed the pro-Gitmo group, was proof positive that detainees should not be released. (See pictures of prison life inside Baghdad's Camp Cropper...
...Kenneth the NBC page • David Brooks is appalled by speech of • Fox News commentators are appalled by speech of • "volcano monitoring" program is idiotically mocked - "Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C." - by • Washington Post is appalled...
...Murdoch, Rupert • New York Post cartoon depicting Obama as a monkey riddled with bullets is apologized for by • Rev. Al Sharpton is - huge surprise coming here, wait for it - dissatisfied with apology...
...wreath on her grave. He's showing powerful leadership when the country feels at a loss. He's learned a lot in exile." - Sartaj Aziz on Sharif's response to the Bhutto assassination. Aziz was a minister under Sharif during Sharif's terms as prime minister. Washington Post...