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...benefits will already cost at least an estimated $92 billion in its first 10 years. Bush will argue that's a small price to pay for better and broader health care, but even a Republican Congress that agrees--and loves to create tax-free accounts--may hesitate to foot such a big bill...
...Philadelphia Daily News columnist John M. Baer, one of the state?s veteran political observers, noted Friday, Pennsylvania actually has a rich tradition of politicians and their handlers putting their foot in their mouths during a crucial moment of a political campaign. In 1990 gubernatorial challenger Barbara Hafer called incumbent Bob Casey ?A redneck Irishman,? propelling him to a second term, and Dick Thornburgh?s aide once called his boss ?The salvation of this sorry-ass state,? pretty much assuring that Harris Wofford would become the state's next U.S. senator in 1991. So it seems that, thanks to Seif...
...told him he didn?t have time to write about the group because his wife was having a baby. Emanuel showed up in the recovery room, said ?Mazel Tov? and immediately asked, ?when do you think you?ll be back to write that story?? He once sent a 2.5-foot dead fish to a pollster whose advice he didn?t like. Now 46, Emanuel went on to become one of President Clinton?s top political aides, pushing such popular ideas as expanding the use of school uniforms. He left government in 1998, made $16 million as an investment banker...
...resistance to Israel, she said that the Palestinians can only achieve peace ?through a two-state solution, which requires a renunciation of violence and turning away from terrorism and accepting the right of Israel to exist and the disarmament of militias. As we have said, you cannot have one foot in politics and the other in terror. Our position on Hamas has therefore not changed...
...Back east, the luxury condo markets that have had similarly explosive growth in Miami and New York, where high-end apartments can command from $2,000 to $4,000 a square foot, haven?t slumped yet. Still, experts say the abrupt reversal of fortune in the desert, where the mainstream residential real estate and hotel markets are still quite healthy, shows just how quickly the odds can change in even the most affluent markets if runaway speculation and overzealous development take hold. ?It?s another case of irrational exuberance,? says John Restrepo, head of a Las Vegas real estate...