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...Alan Greenspan’s term, as certain parts of the market have seen rapidly rising prices. Although many analysts now feel that the bubble is coming to an end, it remains to be seen whether there will be a hard or a soft landing. As that debate rages, there is another bubble that I hope will burst very soon—the “ugly housing bubble...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he helped overturn a death sentence for Carl Ray Songer, who was convicted of killing a state trooper. Healey ripped into Patrick’s role in the case with a controversial campaign ad in October, accusing Patrick of taking a soft stance on crime. Unlike Healey, Patrick opposes the death penalty. Despite the negative campaign ads, Patrick continues to enjoy a strong lead in the polls with the help of a large grassroots campaign involving thousands of volunteers across the state. —Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno...
...likely voters now support Patrick, as opposed to 26 percent in favor of Healey. In addition, 61 percent of people surveyed criticized the negative tone that Healey’s campaign has taken in recent weeks. The ads under fire attack Patrick, a former Dunster House resident, for his soft stance on crime by drawing on the Democratic candidate’s involvement in the cases of Carl Ray Songer, who killed a patrolman in Florida, and Benjamin LaGuer, a convicted rapist. Specifically, Healey, an alum of South House, now Cabot, has criticized Patrick for overturning Songer?...
Geology and theology - Essam al-Rawi saw no contradiction between his two passions. "Being a scientist makes me appreciate God better," he told me last summer. "My education and training give me a better understanding of His creation, so I feel a greater sense of awe toward Him." Both soft-spoken and outspoken, Al-Rawi was entirely comfortable being a professor of geology and a prominent member of the Association of Muslim Scholars - Iraq's main Sunni clerical group, long suspected of ties to the insurgency...
...involved in the talks that brought Pyongyang back to the table. Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose term started just two weeks before Kim's nuclear test, has built support with the Japanese public by standing firm against North Korea. If Abe is seen to go soft, he could lose his conservative political base, already shaken by his recent diplomatic overtures to Beijing and Seoul. While Abe has repeatedly declared that Japan has no intention of developing nuclear weapons, a rising chorus of influential voices inside and outside the government has begun raising the possibility. As unlikely...