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...still tied up in those real estate loans. Just as important, though, other places business owners have looked to for funding in recent years, like home-equity loans and credit lines from nonbank finance companies like CIT, aren't likely to bounce back to their former glory anytime soon...
...ideas, "Artistic and Intellectual Ferment" and "Joining the World" are hardly the product of much brainstorming and betray the Naisbitts' tone-deafness. Do we really believe that what the Naisbitts call "Chinese country music" will soon become a "moneymaking machine" simply because one peasant group's original composition, Song of Sanitation Workers got some favorable notice in the provincial press? (See pictures of China...
...industrialized states is due to the failure of the IMF and the G-8's policies. The current global trading system is under exclusive control of the rich states, which doubtlessly want to keep it that way. Without the prospect of escaping poverty in their home countries any time soon, more and more people will decide to migrate north. The solution to the problem is not more rigid border policing, but a change of policy in the U.S. and Europe toward an equal global trading system that benefits all instead of the few. Christian von Campe, ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND...
...only way to stop this illegal mass invasion is to return them to their home countries as soon as possible unless they are from a war region and qualify as refugees. The immigrants have to learn that they are wasting their money and risking their lives. This strict rule of returning illegal immigrants is the accepted procedure in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Günter Korek, BARSBÜTTEL, GERMANY...
...drug lords will be looking for a chance to return to Marjah as soon as the NATO troops move on. That opportunity may present itself this summer. As McChrystal turns his attention to other Taliban strongholds in Helmand and neighboring Kandahar province, he will depend on Afghan security forces to protect Marjah. In the past, the drug lords have exploited the absence of Western troops to strike alliances with Afghan officials, getting them to play the Taliban's role of protectors of the drug trade. Khan, the farmer, has seen it happen before. "When there is no Taliban, the government...