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...great majority of Americans who don't happen to work in the financial industry, the ramifications of all this turmoil on Wall Street remain hard to assess. ATMs are still dispensing cash, credit card offers keep arriving in the mail, and it's not even all that hard to get a mortgage - if your credit's okay and you can actually afford the monthly payments. There is less lending overall, and that depresses economic activity. But with oil prices dropping again today, the single greatest scourge of American consumers this year - the high price of gasoline...
...utterly unprepared for the attacks that came his way. He had to contend with a press corps that trailed him to mass each Sunday and practically accompanied him to the communion rail to see if he would indeed be given the Eucharist. And when Kerry's campaign decided to remain silent about the issue, he left unchallenged the idea that he was a bad or insincere Catholic...
...talks had revolved around a proposal for Mugabe to remain President while appointing Tsvangirai as Prime Minister, but they had been deadlocked over which position would be more powerful. (Tsvangirai's MDC also controls the legislature, having beaten Mugabe's Zanu-PF Party in the parliamentary vote in March.) It was not immediately clear what led to the breakthrough, nor how the balance of power between Mugabe and Tsvangirai will be resolved. Details of the deal are to be released Monday at a formal signing ceremony...
...According to sources at the meeting, Mbeki, who has been in Harare since Monday in a last-ditch effort to find a compromise, offered a proposal under which Tsvangirai would serve as Prime Minister, chairing a council of ministers charged with formulating government policy. Under the proposal, Mugabe would remain as chairman of the Cabinet, a separate entity, which would review the work of the council of ministers...
...When the deal is finally signed, Mugabe will likely remain President with two deputies from his Zanu-PF Party, but with reduced powers, and Tsvangirai will become Prime Minister with two deputies, one from his own faction of the MDC and the other being Arthur Mutambara, leader of a rival faction of the opposition party...