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...street at Ron's barbershop, where she cuts hair, Melissa Meyer has been polling customers about their feelings on Iraq. Eighty percent of them, she says, are for going to war and cleaning up a mess they suspect will only grow messier if it gets swept under the rug. Her father Bob Meyer, a retired corporate executive and a gun owner whose politics are conservative, says he can't understand the liberals and the pacifists. "They want to disarm me," he says, "but they don't want to disarm Saddam Hussein...
...COSTS. Reverse mortgages involve costs, just like regular mortgages, that can eat up any financial advantage in the short term. These costs often get swept under the rug in the sales pitch because they are not up-front charges but are subtracted from the amount the borrower eventually receives. Take the house from the example above, with a $175,600 reverse mortgage. Typical costs would include an origination fee of $4,700, mortgage insurance of $4,700, other finance costs of $1,200 and servicing fees (deducted monthly but computed up front) of $4,500--leaving a payout of only...
...appeared the deck was stacked against MacDonald as she took her position on the rug at center ice and awkwardly grasped an oversized hockey stick. Any skeptic had their doubts confirmed when her first of three shots sailed wide left...
National elections were completed last month, and Uncle Sam just now finished his housing rearrangement—he swept a couple Republicans under the rug, moved a lot of nondescript Democrats back into storage, and reclined in his White House. He must have laughed at the C-Span junkies yelling something indecipherable about Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) express train heading back to Arizona. Yet as amusing as this good old American election drama is, there is something sinister and insidious lurking beneath Uncle Sam’s contented conservative front. It is the same unsettling force...
...every week and can specialize in what they do best. At First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights, Ill., adult "shepherds" recently guided teams of children to five stations that taught the lesson of David and Goliath: Mary's and Martha's Bed & Breakfast had storytelling on a Persian-style rug; Creation Station was an activity corner with art projects; Acts of Faith Theater featured a play; Kingdom.com offered Internet surfing; and the screening room, Paradise Pictures, showed a religious-themed movie with popcorn. "When I was sitting in church before, I used to bring something to do, like draw," says...