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COULD IT ESCALATE? Possibly, says College of William & Mary's George W. Grayson. "The scariest prospect is if they are coordinating with the drug cartels," Grayson says of the guerrillas. "Both could be looking for ways to distract the government...
...typical year, about 250,000 foreclosures are scheduled for auction at county courthouses nationwide; so far this year there have been 440,000, according to RealtyTrac. Investors once lured by the prospect of flipping houses at ever inflating prices are now (if they sold in time) focused on scooping up distressed houses on the cheap and turning them into rentals. "There's a whole crowd of people who say, 'Wow, what an opportunity,'" says William Bronchick, president of the Colorado Association of Real Estate Investors...
...play this past weekend in Cambridge at the MIT Invitational, the Crimson got out to a scintillating start, collecting four victories in as many games. Harvard showcased its depth as veterans and rookies alike contributed to outscoring its opponents 47-16 over the course of the opening weekend.With the prospect of ECAC and Eastern Championships on the horizon, Harvard will look to emulate this past weekend’s success throughout the year.“[The team] knows that one good weekend does not a season make,” head coach Erik Farrar said. “They...
...closets, shoved under beds, and just clearly not used,” at the end of the academic year. Gingo stated that it simply appeared as if dorm-dwellers were either finding the Harvard-issue pillows to be less comfortable than their own or were put off by the prospect of propping their pates on pillows carried over from previous years. Whatever the case, Gringo noted that given the pillows’ typical life span of only three years and Dorm Crew’s habit of trashing those limp and covered in stains, about a third of the total...
...Whatever the outcome of their negotiation, both Bhutto and Musharraf seem to have overestimated the dictator's popularity. More than a dozen parliamentarians from Musharraf's own party have defected to Sharif's faction, and Bhutto's PPP is also fracturing over the prospect of supporting Musharraf. Even with Bhutto's backing, it is no longer certain that Musharraf could muster the votes to retain the presidency. "He is in a shoestring situation," says Iftikhar Gilani, the former Law Minister under Bhutto. "He needs each vote, and he doesn't have a clear majority. Once he starts counting the votes...