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House prices are soaring and mortgage terms are getting longer - so it is little wonder that fewer borrowers expect to have paid off their mortgage by the time they retire.

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By Stuart Powell Have you ever thought you were the last to hear about something important? Why is that? Do you lack influence or political connections? Is your opinion not valued because of your lowly social status? Do you live in the wrong neighborhood? If the emptiness of your life is exposed by these questions, you are in good company. And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of t...

By Stuart Powell Note: This is the final installment of a four-week series of Communion meditations in which we consider essential features to the story of the birth of God’s Son. This week we focus on the angels. Angels appeared six separate times in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ birth and early childhood (Matthew 1:20-21; 2:13, 19-20; Luke 1:11-20, 26-38; 2:9-15). Luke tells us the angel Gabriel spoke to Zechariah and Mary. No names were mentioned in the other four visits. Most times a s...

>> that case was a frontal attack on the legitimacy of the weapons themselves as opposed to their testing. we almost got there at the court held and i quote that the use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary to the rules of international law hackable in armed conflicts. all, the little word generally. generally. why? again representing somalia, we tried desperately to include a provision that criminalized the use of nuc...

say im an addict, becoming an absolute advective booktv. and it kind of goes to my original point for calling and asking larry, you have got good stuff out there come a good shtick. i have been watching you on "the daily show" and you think there is a saturation point. yocan spread forever, right? when it comes to the oer media outlet say msnbc or fox on the dark side or wtever, it is so darned predictable what you are going to get. i find myself after the campaign going to the two yea...