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...glad to hear that Congress this week had passed a housing relief bill that could help some 400,000 desperate homeowners like Harvin keep their homes via mortgage refinancing aid. They're happier still that President Bush said he'll sign it, despite his objections to the refinancing trust fund as well as the $4 billion set aside to help local governments buy up and refurbish already foreclosed homes (the President described these provisions as giveaways). "We feel a large measure of hope," says Miami Gardens councilman and real estate lawyer Andre Williams. "This isn't just about maintaining houses...
...help him boost his standing with Americans who still do not regard him as highly on defense and foreign affairs as they do John McCain. Fixing that imbalance - and polls show he trails McCain by margins of as much as two to one when voters are asked who they trust more as a potential commander-in-chief - was what the trip was all about, and the campaign used all the tools of a state visit to showcase their man as a potential leader of the free world...
...tribal leaders in Anbar really gave you a sense of how close to the surface the animosity between Sunnis and Shi'as remains. The way that the [Sunni] tribal leaders and the provincial officials describe the Shi'as in Baghdad was indicative of a deep-seated lack of trust. And the fact that the violence has lessened and that [al-Qaeda in Iraq] really has been routed does not answer the larger possibility of a return to sectarian violence unless that trust issue is resolved...
There are murmurs of discontent within the Utah/Arizona FLDS community. The increasing legal troubles of the FLDS leadership could feed doubts about Jeffs, says Carolyn Jessop. However, his hold on members is not just religious. Jeffs is at the center of a financial and business trust that, among other things, assigns homes to families. "So many are networked into his crime," Jessop says. "Husbands were kicked out; ladies knew they were safe if they were obedient. If they had lots of daughters, they got handed out to everybody - it was like a feast." If a man resists the leadership...
...rebuke to the go-it-alone foreign policy approach of President George W. Bush. He lamented that Americans and Europeans "have drifted apart and forgotten our shared destiny," rather than regarding each other as "allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other...