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...into the hotel lobby, get into the lift, go to his room, and that he would open his room to a complete stranger and then be strangled and left naked," says Shields, a former Scotland Yard detective who joined the Jamaican police two years ago to stem a crime wave sweeping the island nation. "I think that is unlikely...
...been nothing done to reform the vetting process that has blackballed many qualified officials who were tainted by complicity in Saddam Hussein's regime. Indeed, there have been several dramatic low points in Khalilzad's tenure in Baghdad: the bombing of the Samarra shrine that unleashed an unprecedented wave of ethnic cleansing and the mishandled execution of Saddam...
That was one remarkable result of the surge in subprime mortgage loans to borrowers with iffy credit records. The other remarkable result is that it is ending really badly--in a wave of foreclosures that could, at worst, cost billions, throw millions of people out of their homes and cause a recession...
...equity types are not in the habit of selling at the bottom. "I always think about what will kill off the other person," Schwarzman once noted, charmingly. Go ahead and buy Blackstone when it becomes available. But don't be disappointed if you take your shares home, unwrap them, wave your magic wand, say abracadabra ... and nothing happens...
...Using the proportion of people that apply rather than attend Cambridge schools has the possibility of causing problems because all economic groups don’t apply at the same time,” says Willie. “The first wave of applicants is likely to have a higher proportion of affluent students than subsequent waves...