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...easily take control of the West Bank too. The longer the Israeli offensive continues, the greater the damage to all the Arab moderates the U.S. has been hoping to rally in an alliance against the likes of Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hizballah. Knowledge that pummeling by the Israelis will shift more political support from moderates to Hamas is no doubt fueling diplomatic efforts to force a truce...
...announcing that one is turning over a new leaf is different from actually changing entrenched realities. The question now is whether the new constraints placed on the U.S. military by the security pact will indeed visibly shift leadership to the Iraqis by June - when U.S. combat troops are supposed to be out of Iraq's cities. Another question: What will the consequences of that shift in command responsibility be in terms of security and keeping order in Iraq? (See pictures of a detention center in Baghdad...
...they were taken from U.S. military sponsorship and put under Iraqi government control. They are increasingly replacing Iraqi police as targets, despite the overall decline of violence, the report said. This year also marks the first in which civilian deaths outside of Baghdad outnumber those within the capital, a shift that Iraqi officials say reflects the fact that Iraq's largest city has become vastly more secure...
...funding not to invest, but to hoard cash for worse times ahead. It wouldn't be hard to imagine regular people doing the same thing with home equity lines of credit. When it came to lending between banks and the commercial paper market, the economists pointed to a shift toward shorter-term lending. Even if overall volumes were holding steady, a reliance on overnight loans would nonetheless indicate that lending wasn't working as usual, they argued...
...still have their jobs, online dating has another advantage over more traditional dating rituals: it's cheaper. Julian Glasser, 32, a real estate broker in Chicago, was forced to make financial sacrifices after the declining housing market took a toll on his formerly ample commissions. Among them was a shift in his dating habits. "I was spending less time at bars and clubs meeting girls and more time at home trying to find girls on the Internet," he says. "I used to spend hundreds of dollars a week on my various dating efforts, whereas now, I only spend...