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Instead of throwing rotten vegetables at you. Well, hopefully not rotten. I mean, I will eat anything. And the rest I'll collect and send to the food bank, so that's fine...
...Others expected to cash in through the program are JPMorgan Chase, which could collect up to $3.4 billion when its EMC Mortgage subsidiary is included, and Wells Fargo, which could get up to $3.1 billion when its Wachovia subsidiaries are included, the report said. Even a former subsidiary of Lehman Brothers, which helped underwrite the subprime toxic loans, is bellying up to the bar, the report said. (See high-end homes that won't sell...
...ethnic factions. The money distributed by the central government - inevitably, money contributed by the international community - is routinely received as tribute by Karzai's local allies, to be disbursed, or not, as they wish; a government job is assumed by many, especially the police, to be a license to collect money for themselves. (An exception appears to be in the effective, if fledgling, Afghan army.) "I have yet to meet an Afghan civilian who has anything positive to say about the central government," a senior U.S. official told me. "They don't like the Taliban very much, but the Taliban...
...much kids cost. "I tell them children also have many benefits," he says, "so you have to keep that in mind." There are, for instance, all the things parents probably don't do as often when the kids are grown. Will we still make bonfires on the beach, collect driftwood and fairy glass, make s'mores even though no one really likes them, since marshmallows surpass superglue for stickiness? Will we still carve jack-o'-lanterns, color Easter eggs - or will holidays feel like formalities? I wonder if I'll miss Cheez Doodles and Jelly Bellies. I'm pretty sure...
...turned up, compared with hundreds of men. This raises alarm bells. Women registered to vote in higher numbers than men this year, which many observers had found hard to believe in a traditional society like Afghanistan. Many suspect that men falsely registered fictitious wives and daughters in order to collect extra voting cards that could in turn be used to stuff ballot boxes. Few of the women's stations were monitored, which raises further questions. "I think people know there will be fraud, but what can we do?" asks Zahir of the Ministry of Finance. "Even if we all have...