Word: rhode
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...safe to start reinvesting a small portion back in stocks again, or are we better off investing in real estate? -Justine Sherburne, Rhode Island I think that real estate is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, because there are no competitive buyers. Mortgage rates are the lowest in my life. Affordability is the best in my life. Clearly, real estate is much better than stocks right...
...hope that Congress could have a truly nonpartisan discussion about the CIA's interrogation techniques were dashed just minutes into the first formal hearing since the recent release of the agency's so-called torture memos. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, fired the first recriminatory salvo, suggesting that the goal of the hearing - conducted by a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee - was to get to the bottom of the Bush Administration's "body of lies." Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina fired right back, suggesting that the hearing would be a "political stunt." (See pictures...
...appeal as a location goes beyond the dollar value. "It can double for almost anything. You can make one of the lakes look like an ocean. You can do rural. You can do gritty urban." (In Betty Anne Waters, the state also stands in for Boston and part of Rhode Island.) Shooting in Michigan can mean fewer headaches as well. "To shut down major Chicago streets or take over an office building on a weekday? It's unheard of," she says. Betty Anne Waters producer Andrew Sugarman agrees. "This is as good as it gets in terms of U.S. locations...
...European and NATO officials attempting to smash the pirate networks - the shipping companies' business-as-usual approach works against military strategy. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said as much, when he appealed to companies to stop paying ransoms, during a speech at the naval war college in Newport, Rhode Island on Friday. "Clearly, if they didn't pay the ransoms, we would be in a stronger position," he said...
...lost this weekend—last year Crimson ace Shawn Haviland ’08 described his feelings towards the Bears: “They don’t like us, we don’t like them.”Awaiting the Harvard players will be a hostile Rhode Island crowd.“It’s always pretty intense when we go down there,” senior Tom Stack-Babich said. “Their coach is fiery and they feed off that. It’s always a pretty heated battle...