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...GOOD LAWYER Ask him to do thorough background checks. It's amazing the history some Thai properties have?often, multiple banks are owed money on them, or all manner of liens and encumbrances will prevent you getting clear title. Swindles are rife?a common one is to sell a house but keep the land on a separate title...
...make a moral point about the importance of courtesy, of trying to keep traditional ways," says the author. Thus Ramotswe's fiance is always referred to as Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni and his place of work by its full name, the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. AIDS, on the other hand, rife in that part of Africa, is never mentioned by name (most Botswanans "won't use it either," McCall Smith says), although it's acknowledged touchingly in the books. Their prose is gentle, easing the reader through Ramotswe's world of crimes of virtue and social misdemeanors...
Maybe he thought voters would still believe that Iraq is rife with WMDs just waiting to be found. As he said in the press conference, “See, I happen to believe that we’ll find out the truth on the weapons…They could be hidden like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm [in Libya].” Of course, as a sheepish White House spokesperson Scott McClellan revealed later, there were actually 23.6 tons of mustard gas, and they were not buried in a turkey farm. Former top U.S. weapons...
Maybe he thought voters would still believe that Iraq is rife with WMDs just waiting to be found. As he said in the press conference, “See, I happen to believe that we’ll find out the truth on the weapons…They could be hidden like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm [in Libya].” Of course, as a sheepish White House Spokesman Scott McClellan revealed later, there were actually 23.6 tons of mustard gas, and they were not buried in a turkey farm. Former top U.S. weapons...
...which previously failed to connect with the majority of Shi'ites, now strikes a chord. A year after the war began, their tolerance is exhausted. The lower rungs of society are fed up with the slow pace of reconstruction and unkept U.S. promises of a better life. Suspicion is rife that America's murky plans for a political transition on June 30 will somehow thwart Shi'ite claims to a rightful share of power. On the streets in the Khadamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, al-Sadr's outspoken defiance made quiescent Shi'ites feel good. Militia guarding a Shi'ite shrine...