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Several Harvard faculty members said yesterday that a proposal to weaken the tax-exempt status of donations to Harvard and other cultural institutions would not have the intended effect of encouraging contributions to charities for the underprivileged...
First of all, home prices won't weaken forever, and they almost certainly will be much higher in 10 years. Waterfront and resort properties and those with spectacular views--just the features you dream of for a retirement home--can be expected to rise the fastest. Yet for even prime properties in today's market, competing bids are rare, and sellers are eager to deal. You have bargaining power, and you have time to research your purchase. Mortgage rates remain low for those with good credit...
...Taken together, all these changes suggest possibly treacherous times ahead. The cease-fires could come unstuck. The humanitarian crisis in parts of the country could get worse. State structures could further weaken, rendering even more difficult any transition to a future democratic government. And it's not impossible that China's growing presence, combined with rising economic frustrations, will lead to anti-Chinese violence. Sanctions and long-distance condemnation do little to address the multifaceted challenges facing the country today. They were a response to the very different Burma of nearly 20 years ago, when it looked like democracy...
...they'll get a taste of what McCain has been experiencing all year. The more they're defined by support for the war, the more Bush's unpopularity will become their own, especially among independents, the people who have turned against McCain en masse. Backing the surge will instantly weaken them in the general election, because if they do eventually pivot in favor of some withdrawal, it will look like a flip-flop...
...being riddled with holes, the mountain settles, like a house settling into its foundations - and because the rock is largely sandstone, it's not as rigid as, say, granite might be. Dig new tunnels, as the Murray Energy Corp. has been doing in a process called "remining," and you weaken the mountain still further. That's almost certainly what caused the original collapse (company president Robert Murray insisted it was an earthquake long after professional seismologists concluded it wasn...