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Bill Santoro, a broker with National Realty Group, has watched the end come for many clients, and it isn't pretty. "Once those introductory rates end, all of a sudden between the mortgage, the new car note and the big charge card payments, there's not enough money in the pot," he says. "It throws them into a complete tailspin...
It’s difficult to decide what to make of the Christ-figure material Rowling uses to set the pitch for the final battle. In the midst of her determined efforts to break out of the flat, the sudden presence of such an archetypal characterization could prove an unwelcome knockout...
...Republicans' sudden aversion has political observers wondering whether abandoning an opportunity to participate in the fledging format shows a potentially costly reluctance to engage with voters or is simply an exercise in prudent message management...
...Howard Dean's upward whoosh in 2004, for example. "Yeah, and then I had that downward whoosh," Dean told me recently, laughing. "This race isn't moving because it's still way early." True enough, but what about the volatility on the Republican side--John McCain's crash, the sudden, inexplicable loft of Fred Thompson's noncandidacy...
...groans in the hearing room; others begged credulity. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, wrapped up his questioning of Gonzales by dropping a strong hint that lawmakers might seek a special prosecutor--someone independent of Gonzales and the White House--to look into the sudden firing of U.S. Attorneys last year. Which may mean Gonzales' time under fire will not be over soon...