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...withdrawal from the West Bank probably won't start for a year, say Kadima party insiders. Until then, Olmert will try coaxing settlers to leave voluntarily so that he can avoid the ugly eviction scenes of the past year, when ultra-Orthodox squatters hurled stones at Israeli security forces and called them "Nazis." But most of all, Olmert will be waiting to see if Hamas softens its stance towards Israel. It hasn't done...
...might lose in this November's election. DeLay got a scare in a Republican primary last month, and a recent poll taken by his campaign gave him a roughly 50-50 shot of winning, in an election season when Republicans need every seat they can hang onto to avoid a Democratic takeover of the House...
...each other. Abu Mohammed says there's nothing to be gained by waging a costly religious fight while the U.S. remains in the country. "The Shi'ites are an inseparable part of the resistance. We have to unite our efforts against the invaders, so we must be careful to avoid a civil war that will weaken us," he says. Contact between Sunni insurgents and Shi'ite militias like al-Sadr's Mahdi Army have been under way since the battle of Fallujah in 2004, with both exchanging expertise and manpower. "We have nothing against Shi'ites ... our dead are buried...
...AVOID WIRE TRANSFERS. Use secure payment systems like PayPal for small-ticket items. For more expensive items, use a legitimate escrow service like Escrow.com in which your money is held by an intermediary until you've inspected the merchandise...
People once expected coffee to be inexpensive too, counters Richard George, a professor of food marketing at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. "Just look at Starbucks." The biggest hazard, he says, is maintaining quality across hundreds of outlets. Yeganeh hopes to avoid that by maintaining tight control over production. All the soup sold will be made at two locations, one in Indiana and the other in New Jersey, using a preparation process designed and supervised by Yeganeh...