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...floods, Seoul-based NGO Good Friends last week reported that the disaster left more than 54,700 dead or missing and 2.5 million homeless?a startling contradiction of Pyongyang's claim that "hundreds" were dead. Good Friends also warned that large areas of farmland were washed out, raising the specter of another famine, reminiscent of the one that cost the lives of as many as 2 million North Koreans in the mid-1990s. "It is a very horrific and devastating situation," says Good Friends' manager Erica Kang...
...There is a lot of positive development outside of the U.S.," says Stuart Schweitzer, managing director and global-markets strategist at JPMorgan Asset & Wealth Management. Add in the specter of towering deficits in the U.S. budget and current account, which could ultimately weaken the dollar, and the idea of diversifying overseas becomes even more attractive...
...Just as getting an ‘A’ is less satisfying once you actually have it on your transcript, so are my summer journeys perpetually satisfying: because my goals remain elaborate yet undefined, utopian and thus unattainable, I never have to declare victory and face the frightening specter of complacency.Hence my love for the Fung Wah Bus. And, I think, hence my countless classmates who have four- or five-line descriptions of their summer location on their facebook.com profiles, listing in excruciating detail the exact dates they will be in Bermuda, New York, Cairo, Madrid, and Venice. Their...
...Just how far into Lebanon the Israelis should advance - and how long they should stay - is the subject of rancorous debates in Israeli cabinet meetings and war rooms. Israeli leaders are haunted by the specter of the last Israeli invasion of Lebanon to root out a terror threat, in 1982. That operation had also been intended to be a quick and surgical operation, but it dragged on for 18 years and cost the lives of close to 2,000 Israeli soldiers before Israel withdrew and left the border area to Hizballah...
...well be too late for Bush and the White House, though - just as it may be for Specter's bill as well. The deal is unlikely to make it through both houses of Congress unaltered. Already House Republican Heather Wilson of New Mexico has announced she will introduce legislation that differs from the Specter bill, and Democrats in both chambers are rallying against the new deal. Which means that instead of drawing the line in the ongoing war powers battle, the White House may end up drawing a blank...