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...rent to own. In the long term, prices are going to go up. By not acting soon, you risk eventually being priced out of the market altogether. If money is tight, consider buying now and collecting years of rent to defray your costs. Many homes remain too expensive for this plan; the cost of a mortgage, insurance and taxes is higher than the rent the property can realistically generate. But for the first time in years, home prices have slipped enough in some regions for the math to work, including in Destin, Fla.; the Outer Banks of North Carolina; Branson...
...Republicans to go on the record as supporting Bush. It is likely that some of the votes that take place this fall will be as much about the future of Congress as about the future of Iraq. There are a dozen Republicans in both houses who are in very tight races next year. A vote for the status quo, Democrats believe, is priceless advertising fodder in the coming election...
...were far larger than the London bombers relied on, that's because the attack modes and venues were different. "Success is paramount for terrorists, so you're not going to risk getting caught by collecting large stores of materials if you'll be detonating a smaller bomb in a tight and enclosed environment like a train," the security official notes. "If you're using remote detonation against open-air targets, success is greater if you go larger, as was the case earlier this summer in London, and now seems so in Germany...
...Many of them gathered last Thursday for a performance by Scrambled Eggs, four nerdy-cool local guys in tight jeans and high-tops who strangle their guitars and have onstage seizures as if this were Manchester in the '80s or Seattle in the '90s. "I was locked in a cellar but it became my shelter," sang frontman Charbel Haber on "See You in Beirut Whatever Happens," one of the band's original songs that convincingly channels the post-punk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure, but which seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called...
...tearful or bored before heading back to do it again. True festival junkies see three, four, even six movies a day, often eschewing the blockbusters-to-be in favor of films that won't make it to DVD, much less mainstream theaters. We asked a few veterans about their tight schedules, the days before advance ticket sales, and the rush they get from a celluloid overdose...