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Mark Twain and Will Rogers shared a sentiment. As Twain said, "Buy land, they're not making it anymore...
...veracity of the government poll is questionable, but the results appear to be in step with popular sentiment toward the Sadrists in Baghdad, where many have come to see the cleric's followers as thugs and opportunists. "I am not satisfied with the ideology of these people," says Rasim Hassan Haikel, a Shi'ite shopkeeper in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Huriya, a longtime Mahdi Army stronghold...
...Market sentiment during the last few Years of the Ox has, in fact, been more bearish than bovine. In 1997, Asia suffered a financial meltdown, while in 1973 the world was ravaged by oil shocks. Year of the Ox almanacs sold in Shanghai subways counsel patience and hard work in order to overcome 2009's potential market woes. Both virtues are considered attributes of those people born under its symbol. In fact, one of the leaders on whom the fate of the global financial system may well depend was born in a Year of the Ox: Barack Obama...
...region that Texas has a symbiotic relationship with Mexico. "I feel let down. I see the President as a fixer," Foster says. He believes "weighty issues" like Iraq distracted Bush, while national media voices like Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and CNN's Lou Dobbs have fanned national sentiment on the border fence. "I am optimistic that with border governors like Governor [Janet] Napolitano, Obama is getting people in the Cabinet who understand the border," Foster says...
...apparent nod to that sentiment, King Abdullah struck a conciliatory note on Monday when he told the Kuwait summit that the Arab peace initiative, his own brainchild, could be withdrawn, a shift that indicates the moderates may be losing the argument. "Israel has to understand that the choice between war and peace will not always stay open and that the Arab peace initiative that is on the table today will not stay on the table," he said...