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More importantly, the program was a lifeline thrown at severely cash-strapped dealers. Sales were up. So were the profits. Consumers tend to drop their guards when there are big incentives, assuming that they will get great deals no matter what. As the clunker sales reached a fevered pitch, I think it's fair to say that the deals got much stingier. Many shoppers could have gotten better deals if they had done their homework before going to the dealership. (Watch a video about an optimistic Dodge dealer...
...Even Kerry's family life has been gapping up. His daughter Vanessa is getting married in October, and he has thrown himself rather dramatically into wedding-planning, in part because his ex-wife Julia Thorne, Vanessa's mother, died of cancer in 2006. (Walking back to his office from the Senate floor recently, Kerry held forth at length about the coming nuptials and his hopes of persuading his daughter to do a Red Sox bridal-party outing.) Kerry isn't utterly changed, of course. He retains the sometimes aloof bearing that made him a hard sell to some voters...
...picture has come under scrutiny in the murder's wake: Billings, who was arrested in 1989 for adoption fraud, tried earlier this decade to copyright his adopted children's names in a bizarre scheme to extract money from Florida's Department of Children & Family Services. He had also recently thrown two of his teen-aged children out of the house because he didn't like the people they were dating...
...arbitrary manner," Salwa Duaibis, Coordinator for the Right to Enter Campaign in Ramallah, told TIME. "It depends on the discretion of the person sitting at the border. If you want to go and visit family in Jerusalem and you get this visa, then your whole plans are thrown out of the window...
...voting station, Assadullah, 52, casually checked incoming voters on polling day Thursday. The Tajik security guard himself was a partisan of Abdullah Abdullah. In a way, he was following orders. Assadullah had once fought under Mohammad Atta, an ex-mujahideen commander who now governs the province and who has thrown his support behind Abdullah. Meanwhile, Palwasha, 19, a beaming first-time voter, giggled as she declined a request to reveal whom she chose. She was nonetheless grateful for the relative safety of her experience. "I've waited for this day for a long time," she said, holding...