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...appears to be part of the Administration's strategy to emphasize rights where it can make real progress, and not just for rhetoric. But in the past, activists say, they expected new Presidents to talk tough on rights first and then, if necessary, throttle back. Obama, they complain, has sold out on the opening gambit...
...that his real name not be used because his company is in financial difficulty and he may leave the country.) Helicopters circled the event "as if David Beckham had arrived at the airport," he says. Inside, Mohamed put a down payment on an apartment, walked out the door, and sold the unit to a Russian man on the street for double his purchase price. The man paid cash. In just 20 minutes Mohamed had made $408,000. The lesson: "In Dubai, you can throw your ethics and economics textbooks right out the window, because the rules just don't apply...
...much as 400% during the boom years, few people wanted the finished properties they had purchased - usually off plan, and often well before the first spadeful of earth had been turned. The market was driven by speculators, interested only in trading - or "flipping" - incomplete units, which often sold for more than completed buildings, and might get flipped 10 times before construction finished. "You can't believe how crazy this was," says Robert McKinnon, head of real estate research at Al Mal Capital, a local investment firm. "Everyone knew it was like a game of musical chairs. When prices were going...
...following year, a 40-year-old National Archives intern stole 160 Civil War documents-including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death-and sold about half of them on eBay. Possible motivation? He told his psychiatrist he was angry the internship was unpaid...
...book, which has been dubbed the "Catholic Kama Sutra," has the backing of the Catholic Church in Poland and the national media - even the ultraconservative Catholic daily Nasz Dziennik gave it a positive review. Bookstores around the country sold out of the first 5,000 copies within weeks. The St. Pawel publishing house has already ordered a reprint and is considering translations into English, Italian and Slovak. (See TIME's top 10 books...