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Meanwhile, Reid, whose poll numbers suggest his time in the Senate could be ending soon, was hardly cowed by the loathers swamping his hometown. Palin had no sooner left Searchlight than he appeared at a fundraiser in Las Vegas featuring Al Gore as the keynote speaker. The former Veep, who ran for President twice, takes Palin seriously. From the day McCain plucked her from obscurity, Gore has seen her as a potent, raw political talent who should not be underestimated. He didn't mention Palin by name in his remarks at the Reid event, but he did condemn Republicans...
...Bank, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank Trust, Wells Fargo Bank, US Bank and GMAC Mortgage. When a Chapter 13 bankruptcy is ordered and confirmed, lenders must cease any foreclosure proceedings and the delinquent homeowner must begin making regular mortgage payments. But if the debtor cannot keep up the payments, "sooner or later the court drops the bomb," says attorney James Beshears...
...surprise, then, that in the endgame, Karzai has revealed an agenda quite distinct from that of Washington - just as Pakistan has done. The premise of the U.S. policy, after all - just like that of the Pakistanis, Karzai, the Taliban and every other player in the game - is that sooner or later, the Americans will leave. And it's that reality, now more than ever, that is shaping everyone's game...
...Laura Jaramillo ’10-’11, this anxiety came sooner. Jaramillo’s family left Colombia when she was 12 years old. As an employee of a national telephone company, her father worked to cut off the communications of imprisoned officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. He began receiving phone threats from the rebel group. They heard of people they knew getting kidnapped. The family fled to the U.S. to apply for political asylum, a process that was drawn out over eight years...
...gunfight with the Taliban. Besieged, Hekmatyar's men opted to surrender to nearby government troops as a way to save themselves. That incident, however, underscores how abysmal Hekmatyar's relations are with the Taliban and casts doubt over his ability to deliver Taliban leaders to the negotiating table. No sooner was the new peace plan announced in Kabul than did the Taliban vigorously reject it. "What we want is the expulsion of foreign occupation forces unconditionally," a Taliban spokesman told the New York Times. (See pictures of a priest who ministers to troops in Afghanistan...