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...absolute priority. Even the Iraqi government, ostensible poster child of the "new Middle East," has differed sharply with the Bush administration's stance. What the Arabs are telling Washington is this: Not only will the Israeli bombardment probably strengthen Hizballah in Lebanon, but its continuation with U.S. blessing will imperil other U.S. interests in the region...
...about to burst. "We are raising the loudest possible alarms," said Tom Stevens, president of the National Association of Realtors, which along with the Mortgage Bankers Association and other industry players concludes that losing the deduction would drive home prices as much as 15% lower, sap consumer confidence and imperil the economy. "You could not pick a worse time to bring this up," says Edward Yingling, president of the American Bankers Association. "The housing market is already testy...
...nations either have recently elected left-wing heads of state (including the region's largest economy, Brazil) or have leftists leading in the polls for upcoming presidential elections (including Mexico and Bolivia). Failure to engage the region's new politics will not only have economic consequences; it could also imperil other key U.S. goals in the hemisphere such as the war on drugs, immigration reform and the consolidation of democracy...
There's much more to this richly detailed, sometimes humorous film: Tom undertakes an affair with his best friend's wife (Aure Atika); he and his Chinese piano coach (Linh Dan Pham) fall in love despite the fact that they don't share a language; he manages to profoundly imperil his father when he screws up an attempt to collect a debt from a Russian crime lord...
...billion?the first increase since 2000. Yet even as the club struggles to overcome illegal bookies, powerful new competitors are springing up. In nearby Macau, a welter of Las Vegas-style casinos are scheduled to open in the next few years, giving Hong Kongers more ways to imperil their paychecks. The number of tourists visiting Macau jumped 53% in the first half of the year. It's enough to make a punter long for the good old days, when the sport of Kings was the only game around...