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...race to generate enough distinctive inventory in jet-set markets," says Scott Berman, a leisure-industry consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. The general rule is 1 property for every 6 members. But many clubs have fallen behind. They are working to rectify the problems, but in the meantime, if you join, you may not get all that's promised. At any destination club, it can be difficult to lock up the property you want over a holiday or if you book fewer than 90 days in advance. "They're oversold," says Bob Jones, consultant with OneTravel Holdings, an Atlanta online-travel agency...
Republicans can take some comfort in the fact that one general rule about politics remains true, even in this difficult year: as mad as voters are at Washington in general, they are still pretty happy with the individual people who represent them. In the TIME poll, 63% of respondents said they approved of the job their local lawmaker was doing. That's one reason Republican strategists say they plan to battle the national tide by localizing individual races. Localizing suggests drawing voters' attention to the issues that most affect them at home. But in practice, to political operatives it means...
...candidates may change, but Israeli elections follow a golden rule. Nobody ever wins a majority in the 120-seat Knesset - which often makes for strange alliances, especially amongst the more hawkish, conservative Likud party, more dovish and liberal Labor party and a whole slew of other smaller factions. Judging from the polls, this will hold true in next Tuesday's elections, in which the front-running, self-described centrist Kadima party, headed by acting prime minister Ehud Olmert, is expected to garner less than 40 seats. Kadima will need partners, and increasingly, it looks like one of those may well...
...NCAA] manual and find something that doesn’t entirely make sense to you,” he wrote in an e-mail. While we flabby non-atheletes enjoy pocketed folders and hard core cold meds, our sportif comrades should take the time to study the rule book to stay on the field. Score...
...Perhaps, but there's hardly any certainty over that outcome - even in the new Afghanistan liberated from the rule of the Taliban, personal status issues are governed by Islamic Sharia law rather than a civil code. And it's not clear how a conflict between Sharia and the Afghan constitution's embrace of U.N. Human Rights conventions that guarantee freedom of worship would be resolved. The country's chief justice, Fazl Hadi Shinwari, has no secular legal education, and had previously been the head of a Council of Islamic Scholars. He is also a close associate of Abdul-Rabb...