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In several metropolitan areas, from Miami to Riverside, Calif. , where the real estate market is white hot, rapidly rising prices are luring a growing number of ordinary people into buying and selling residences they do not intend to occupy, despite warnings from some economists that prices cannot continue to rise as steeply as they have in the last few years.

Today, Americans still make the same presumption that military might be right. Following European criticisms of the Iraq war, the French became " surrender monkeys". The Germans were opportunistic ingrates. The British and the Poles were America’s lone allies. Unsurprisingly, many of those listening to Bush’s inaugural pledge last week to stand with those defying tyranny saw the glimmerings of an argument for invading Iran. Washington has thus far shown more of an appetite for spreading ideals with the barrel of a gun than for namby-pamby hearts-and-minds campaigns.