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Participating students were split into two teams whose offenses would move down the field depending on whether or not they answered multiple-choice financial questions correctly, such as what homeowners would do if they were having difficulty paying off their mortgage...
There are, not surprisingly, still debates among Democrats over details and priorities: a Pew Research survey released last week found Democratic voters split over issues like trade and whether to drill for oil. The crop of more conservative candidates running this election cycle will, if elected, increase the numbers and clout of Blue Dog Democrats in Congress, who don't always see eye to eye with the party's congressional leadership. And Obama's generally restrained style and pragmatic, postpartisan approach to politics have not provided an outlet for the frustration and rage that has developed in some pockets...
...cons, to Terminal Island, Death Race 2000 travels from New York City (where the pedestrian traffic signs flash "WALK," then "RUN") to "New Los Angeles." And in contrast to the all-male gang in the new film, with the ladies reduced to riding shotgun, Bartel's drivers are equally split between men and women. David Carradine is Frankenstein, and a pre-Rocky Sylvester Stallone plays Machine Gun Joe, but there's also Warhol renegade Mary Woronov as Calamity Jane and Roberta Collins as Goth gal Mathilda the Hun. They are as aggressive as the guys, with Woronov's "Zany Janey...
...explained Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Aviv Shiron. Now, Israel has to contend with a barrage of international media coverage of the two peace vessels sailing into Gaza harbor - and the publicity boon this will give to the Hamas militants who have ruled Gaza since June 2007 when they split with Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, who governs from the Palestinian inland enclave in the West Bank. Hamas' leader in Gaza, Ismael Haniyeh, personally welcomed the activists. Israel and Hamas are sworn enemies (the Islamic militants say they want to destroy the Jewish state) but nonetheless they agreed to a cease-fire...
...might have been able to buy a one-bedroom condo, but that would have been pushing it," says Kovack. Instead, he and Katz live in a 2,300-sq.-ft. (about 215 sq m) three-bedroom row house with stainless-steel appliances and a deck out back. They split the mortgage, the tax break, the cost of upkeep--and the pride of being homeowners a few years out of college...