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...when oil prices started to rise in 2003, Saudi Arabia was ready. For one thing, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the country's central bank, had greatly expanded the number of well-trained national staffers. Second, it had at its helm officials who remembered the bad days of low oil revenues. That meant that when the oil gushers were turned up again, money was saved and not aggressively spent as elsewhere in the region. The nation's wealth was also placed in very liquid investments, predominantly U.S. government paper assets, rather than real estate. While other regional investment funds were...
...opposition to marriage is political, in solidarity with gays who can't legally wed in most states, and personal - he and his partner both got divorced in their 20s, an experience that has led McCauley to liken marriage to food poisoning: "You don't want to eat that thing again, even if you know it's perfectly fine this time." (Read "A Gay-Marriage Solution: End Marriage...
...hard thing to do because it was a major change, and it was a major change that many teachers were uncomfortable with,” said Susan R. Heyman, a member of the Newton Public School Committee...
...think the thing that Jeff will find different is the diversity of Cambridge Public Schools,” Peterkin said. “What he’ll find is more diversity of student body, of community, and of programs that he will need to learn quickly and evaluate...
McConnell, Sen. Mitch •opposition of to filibustering of judicial nominees is - surprise! - a thing of the past...