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...difficult for Europeans to swallow. We are much more used to parliamentary compromises, minority governments, pros and cons, and, simply, doubt. I am quite worried that Americans and Europeans are drifting apart in a way we have never seen before. It is a real shame, and we need to rebuild the old alliance. The U.S. has to show more understanding of the views of other countries, and Europe has to take on greater military responsibility. No matter who is elected U.S. President in November, we have to find each other again. Tomas Bech Madsen Soro, Denmark The Price of Spurious...
...boom losing steam, a teardown is no sure thing. Still, it can prove worthwhile--as long as you're careful. As Peter Miller of Realtytimes.com explains, you need to crunch the numbers to make sure the value of your new home will at least match your purchase, teardown and rebuild costs--plus leave you some compensation: "A typical profit margin should be on the order of 10 to 20 percent...
...brash young millionaire among aging ex-communists, but Hungary's ruling Socialists are hoping Ferenc Gyurcsany, their new Prime Minister-designate, can rebuild the party's tattered image in time for elections in 2006. Gyurcsany, 43, who's moving up from Youth and Sports Minister, made his fortune by buying state enterprises at fire-sale prices in the early 1990s. In a party vote, he beat an old-guard politician named Peter Kiss by a margin of 40% after Peter Medgyessy, the former PM, officially quit. Although lacking in experience, Gyurcsany is not lacking in confidence. "He believes in himself...
...Najaf and Sadr City for two months. He eventually accepted a favorable truce in June that relegated U.S. forces to bases outside the city and did nothing to rid the place of anti-American rebels. U.S. military commanders complained that the political deal simply gave him breathing room to rebuild his battered forces and consolidate himself as the chief Shi'ite resistance leader. There was a growing sense at the Pentagon that such a strategy had only delayed a day of reckoning...
...THINGS SEEM TO BE GOING SO POORLY IN IRAQ? It's a very good thing when a major war fight is quick. On the other hand, if you want to reconstitute, rebuild, reconstruct the country, that is never ever going to be done in a year or 18 months. I don't know whether the Administration permitted or encouraged the media in our country to believe that this was going to be easy, but it happened. There came to be created an expectation that even a superpower can't meet...