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Huge real estate projects, central geography, and reconciliation with its fraternal capital Abu Dhabi made Dubai resilient to the crisis in ways almost every global analyst missed.
CNN: Is Dubai the center of the world (again)?
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Mr Abbas for his part pointedly hosted a new pro-peace organisation of Israeli businessmen and public figures in Ramallah, the Palestinians' administrative capital, on April 28th, the day after the reconciliation agreement was announced.
ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestinian unity
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Republican leaders are determined to shoehorn a two-year extension of the top-15% tax rate on capital gains and dividends, which expires at the end of 2008, into reconciliation.
FORBES: Congress Fiddles