Texas QB Schaub back at practice to help Leinart (AP)

HOUSTON ? Injured Texans quarterback Matt Schaub was back at practice on Thanksgiving, wearing a protective boot on his right foot as he kept a close eye on his replacement, Matt Leinart.

Schaub sustained a Lisfranc injury in Houston's 37-9 win over Tampa Bay on Nov. 13, and had to give up hope on returning this season after meeting with foot specialist Dr. Robert Anderson in Charlotte on Wednesday.

Houston (7-3) placed Schaub on injured reserve, and Leinart will make his first start at Jacksonville (3-7) on Sunday.

Schaub is scheduled to have surgery in Charlotte next Wednesday. Doctors have assured him his injury is not career-threatening and isn't likely to occur again when he returns to action.

"Once I talked to everyone, there really wasn't an option out there, other than to get it fixed for the long term," Schaub said. "It's pretty positive as far as after the surgery, getting the rehab done and being able to come back, play and be fine."

Coach Gary Kubiak said Schaub will travel with the team this weekend and be available to support Leinart, rookie T.J. Yates and third-stringer Kellen Clemens, who signed with Houston on Wednesday.

"He needs to stay very much involved," Kubiak said. "I think there's a way he can help this team, so we're going to give him a chance to do that. It's just tough to see him standing back there."

But Kubiak isn't sure how much Schaub will be able to help after his surgery. Schaub said he faces a long recovery, starting with 6-8 weeks of non-weight-bearing activity.

"It's not a quick turnaround, as far as rehabilitation," Schaub said. "It's going to be an offseason getting ready and getting right for training camp."

Schaub has been the Texans' starter since 2007, after he was acquired in a trade with Atlanta. He missed five games in his first year with the team because of a shoulder injury and concussion, then sat out five more in 2008, one with an illness and four with a knee injury.

Critics questioned his durability, but Schaub silenced them by starting every game between 2009-10 and the first 10 of this season. He hurt his foot in the second quarter against Tampa Bay and played the entire second half, but said he didn't make the injury more severe by staying in that game.

"Talking to the doctors, there wasn't anything I could do worse to it, other than something new," he said.

So far, Houston has survived remarkably well as one key player after another has gone down with an injury, taking control of the AFC South behind the best 10-game start in team history.

Running backs Arian Foster and Ben Tate missed time early, outside linebacker Mario Williams was lost for the season with a torn chest muscle, and star receiver Andre Johnson has sat out six games with a right hamstring injury. Johnson is expected to play in Sunday's game, along with safety Danieal Manning, who broke his left leg in a victory over Tennessee on Oct. 23.

Still, the Texans haven't trailed in four games, hold a two-game lead in the division and seem to be closing in on the team's first playoff appearance.

Schaub says this year's success makes the frustration over this injury more disappointing than the ones he's had in past years.

"The physical side of it and actually getting hurt is part of the game and I can handle that," he said. "Mentally and all that, I can deal with that. I'll be back. I'll get back.

"But after all the hard work I've put in and this team's put in, this organization, to get to this point, with six weeks to go, that's the frustrating part, to not see it through with my team," he said. "That's the frustrating part, to get to this point and not be able to finish it."

Schaub was determined to return to practice on Thursday and be on the sideline Sunday to help Leinart, who will make his first start since 2009, when he played for Arizona. Leinart didn't take a snap last season, and re-signed with the Texans because of his comfort level with Kubiak, Schaub and the Houston system.

Schaub is confident the offense won't miss a beat with Leinart taking the snaps.

"He's been around enough football," Schaub said. "He's played enough, too, it's not too big for him. He's going to go out there, be even-keeled, run the huddle, run the offense and he's going to be in good shape."

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Housing Series: The Case for Bundling Housing Finance With ...

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Housing Series: The Case for Bundling Housing Finance With Housing Support Services

(Above image: Concrete pillars are loaded for transportation from a Bangladesh Habitat Resource Center to nearby home sites for rebuilding after Cyclone Sidr, 2007).

This post is the second of two parts on Housing Support Services. Part one may be found here.?

Studies suggest that between 20 to 30 percent of microfinance institution (MFI) clients use portions of their small business start-up or production loans for housing improvements. While MFIs see this as "leakage" for non-productive activities, "productive housing" should be viewed as both a livelihood strategy as well as asset creation - especially in urban settlements. Home-based industries and small businesses are often run from a family's home and in many cases a spare room for rent is itself a livelihood strategy for the family. Deferred maintenance can also impact health and have a negative impact on productive work days outside of the home.?

Families prioritize home improvements for a variety of reasons, providing a cost effective opportunity for low-income financial institutions (LIFIs) - MFIs, Credit Unions and Cooperatives, Village Savings and Loans, etc. - to provide value-added bundled services.?

Distribution channel at scale

LIFIs have the distribution capacity at scale to connect households to the HSS information, knowledge and construction technical assistance needed to improve incremental housing improvements in health and safety.? In Nepal, for example, action literacy programs have reached over 100,000 clients in village savings groups and cooperatives.? By adding an additional home improvement reader to their current literacy series, accelerated impact has been achieved.?

(Above: Members of a savings group in rural Haryana, India, meet to repay loans and discuss more community projects including housing microfinance options).

Linking community based HSS resources

In many countries Habitat for Humanity (HFH) has partnered with LIFIs to provide disaster resilient construction and financial education as a part of a bundled housing finance package; often delivered through Habitat Resource Centers.? These technical support service centers are demand-driven local networks supported by HFH and provide HSS at regional and community locations as well as in disasters, through mobile training units and temporary facilities.? A full range of non-construction services can also be provided.? In Chile, HFH provided legal assistance for land tenure and permit processing, enabling households to access government housing subsidies.

Other services that HRCs can bundle with housing finance providers include:

  • market information on local material suppliers and service providers,
  • link vendors and suppliers to potential clients
  • information on integrated service providers where for example, masons acts as architect, engineer and materials supplier
  • home improvements demonstrations to showcase cost-effective technologies.
  • Leveraging small business and livelihood development into a provider network. Examples include small family businesses training and certification of masons and skilled workers, linking them to housing finance clients

Web based HSS Knowledge strategies

Based on demand from LIFI networks, HFH will pilot e-services through web-based "beehive centers" across India that will build on existing financial education modules.? New e-knowledge products include "tech sheets" with basic construction information previously provided through the local HRC network model, and now digitized for an e-knowledge platform.

Global peer learning program

Based on these early successes, HFH launched a three-year, multi-country global learning initiative to identify best practices and develop sustainable business models for demand-led HSS.? This initiative kicked off with a global workshop in Nicaragua to learn from Prodel, a housing NGO globally recognized for their high quality HSS.? Prodel's financial partners charge client-level fees tied to their housing finance products for construction technical assistance.? Their research shows that HSS divide into three categories, each with different HSS options, service providers and cost structures:

  • Level 1 - Non-skilled maintenance and repair - requires basic written and graphic handout materials on topics such as how a homeowner can hire and oversee a contractor, access to HSS information in the community or over the web, and disaster resilient construction tips where appropriate.
  • Level 2 - Skilled support services - require a trained mason or carpenter, electrician or plumber, but are not technically or structurally complicated projects.
  • Level 3 - Complex projects - require structural work that should be planned, executed and overseen by trained technical experts, such as adding an additional floor or house extension in a high hazard zone.

Interestingly, Prodel found that;

  • Level 1 represented nearly 80 percent of their loans and that Non-skilled HSS were sufficient to produce higher quality affordable improvements
  • Level 2 represented 18 percent of loans
  • Level 3 represented only 2 percent of loans requiring complex technical HSS

If these prove to be globally representative, LIFIs should be able to distribute basic shelter information to borrowers at each level at very low costs, while developing a fee schedule for Level 2 or 3 loans, which are far fewer in number. ?Limiting services to information distribution reduces costs, reaches all clients regardless of construction complexity and overcomes LIFI's reluctance to enter what they perceive as a non-core new business.

By bundling HSS with housing finance, we achieve an added community benefit of "making a market" for quality housing service providers.? As market demand for their services increases, a full range of local small businesses and fee- for-service providers will develop, increasing the need for skilled labor, wholesale and retail suppliers and construction specialists, providing income for community based organizations who provide HSS to low-income constituents.

The Payoff

Housing Support Services, especially when bundled with access to housing finance, can provide families with the necessary technical and financial information and resources to maximize the impact of housing investments that reduce their risk, improve their health, livelihoods and financial assets.

The lack of safe water and sanitation, high density conditions, poor construction practices and increasing climate change impacts, threaten millions of the most vulnerable urban citizens.? Without HSS, the problem of poor construction choices is greater than efficiency or effectiveness. ?It is now life threatening, as informal settlements around the world become more overcrowded, forcing families to settle in high hazard zones, exacerbating the range of deplorable living conditions.?

While some assert that the poor do not appreciate nor pay for housing support services, the experience of PRODEL in Nicaragua, HFH and others suggest that this is not the case when these services are appropriately aligned with varying levels of construction complexity as well as with? families' demands, who understand the financial, health and safety impacts.

If we are to work effectively in an increasingly urbanizing world and have influence at scale, we will need to develop effective sustainable housing support services.? Financial institutions are focused on providing financial products.? Housing NGOs are focused on providing quality housing.? Housing Support Services may be the way that these sectors meet in the middle, providing access to information to 80 percent of the households globally who improve their own homes each year. ?

Source: http://www.nextbillion.net/blog/2011/11/25/housing-series-financing-secure-tenure-are-essential

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US awaits release of 3 students held in Egypt

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 file image from Egyptian state television, three American students are displayed to the camera by Egyptian authorities following their arrest during protests in Cairo, where an Egyptian official said they were throwing firebombs at security forces. A spokeswoman for the American University in Cairo identified the students as Luke Gates, a 21-year-old Indiana University student from Bloomington, Ind.; Derrik Sweeney, a 19-year-old Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Mo.; and Gregory Porter, a 19 year-old Drexel University student from Glenside, Pa. An official says an Egyptian court has ordered release of 3 US students arrested during Cairo unrest.(AP Photo/ Egyptian TV, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 file image from Egyptian state television, three American students are displayed to the camera by Egyptian authorities following their arrest during protests in Cairo, where an Egyptian official said they were throwing firebombs at security forces. A spokeswoman for the American University in Cairo identified the students as Luke Gates, a 21-year-old Indiana University student from Bloomington, Ind.; Derrik Sweeney, a 19-year-old Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Mo.; and Gregory Porter, a 19 year-old Drexel University student from Glenside, Pa. An official says an Egyptian court has ordered release of 3 US students arrested during Cairo unrest.(AP Photo/ Egyptian TV, File)

(AP) ? Family and friends of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo waited anxiously Friday for news that they had been released from police custody.

Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregory Porter, who attend the American University in Cairo, were arrested on the roof of a university building near Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Sunday. Officials accused them of throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters.

A court in Egypt ordered the release of the students, a lawyer in Philadelphia confirmed Thursday.

Attorney Theodore Simon, who represents Porter, a 19-year-old student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said he spoke by phone with Porter, describing the student's demeanor as "calm and measured, demonstrating a maturity well beyond his 19 years."

"He was extremely thankful and appreciative for our efforts and the unconditional support of his mother and father," Simon said.

Porter is from Glenside, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia.

Sweeney's mother, Joy Sweeney, said she is "absolutely elated" at the news of her 19-year-old son's release.

"I can't wait to give him a huge hug and tell him how much I love him," she said, adding that the news of the court order was the best Thanksgiving gift.

The 21-year-old Gates is a student at Indiana University.

His parents released a statement Thursday through the school, saying they were "extremely happy" to hear that their son would soon be released.

"This has been a difficult situation, and while we are disappointed that he will be held a few days longer to complete administrative procedures related to his release, we're confident he will be home soon," Bill and Sharon Gates wrote.

The State Department released a statement saying it was trying to independently confirm the reports of the students' release.

Earlier Thursday, Egypt officials said the Abdeen Court in Cairo had ordered their release. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media. They did not say when the students would be released.

Joy Sweeney said she wasn't sure when her son, a student at Georgetown University, would be returning to their home in Jefferson City, Mo.

"If he can find his passport (then he'll leave) tomorrow, if not, it won't be until Monday," she said.

She said the U.S. consul general in Egypt, Roberto Powers, recommended that her son leave Egypt as soon as possible.

"He also conveyed that that was what Derrik had conveyed to him that he wanted to do. He was enjoying his experience but (was) ready to be done with it," Sweeney said.

Derrik Sweeney interned for U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., earlier this year. Luetkemeyer's spokesman Paul Sloca, said the congressman is "extremely pleased that he's safe and coming home, especially on Thanksgiving."

Sweeney said she had not prepared for a Thanksgiving celebration, although a friend had taken her some food. She said the idea of a Thanksgiving feast had seemed "absolutely irrelevant" before the news of her son's pending freedom.

Asked what she thought her son would take away from his arrest, Sweeney said she thought he would make something useful of it.

"I'm sure that he'll put a life-lesson learning experience into a positive story," Sweeney said. "He's a writer, he will write about this experience."

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Associated Press reporter Ed Donahue in Washington contributed to this report. Maggie Michael reported from Cairo.

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Black Friday: Occupy Protests Discourage Shopping On One Of Retail's Biggest Days

SAN FRANCISCO -- Anti-Wall Street protesters took their message about corporate greed to Black Friday shoppers, staging demonstrations in commercial areas around California on one of the busiest days of the year for retailers and bargain-hunters.

In San Francisco, a few dozen people in tony and touristy Union Square used signs to spread an anti-consumerism message. One, 9-year-old Jacob Hamilton, held a sign that read, "What is in your bag that's more important than my education?"

Some of the protesters from the Occupy movements in San Francisco and Oakland clashed with police when they briefly blocked the city's iconic cable cars until officers pushed them out of the street.

Later in the afternoon, some of the participants in what protesters called "Don't Buy Anything Day" sat down in the middle of Market Street, San Francisco's main thoroughfare, and blocked traffic while chanting, "Stop shopping and join us!"

"I wanted us both to be here for the children," said protester Steve Hamilton, a screenwriter who traveled to the city from Winters, Calif., with his son Jacob. "I see how the education deficit directly affects the schools; how the teachers struggle with so many kids in the classrooms and a lack of books. It's not fair to this generation."

Down the street from Macy's massive store on Union Square in San Francisco, shopper Celia Collins of New Orleans said she worked hard to earn her MBA and pay off her student loans. She had every right to enjoy Black Friday, she said, and the protesters would be better off working within the system to find jobs and support the economy.

"I think they're a bunch of ... crybabies," said Collins, clutching her shopping bags as she watched the protesters march down Stockton Street. "I don't begrudge them the right to do it, but I just don't think they've really very smart."

A group of about 20 Occupy protesters in Sacramento marched from a park to a small outdoor mall where many of the storefronts are empty. A police officer on a bicycle trailed the crowd.

A few puzzled shoppers, many toting large shopping bags, stopped to stare at the crowd as they read a manifesto asking people to support local merchants.

Michele Waldinger, 57, a retired attorney who used to work for the U.S. Small Business Administration, said she joined the group to lend her voice to the Occupy effort to restore a social safety net and get corporate influence out of American politics.

"I support the movement, I support getting money out of politics and I support having people shop locally," she said.

The group paraded into a Macy's store, entering near the women's clothing department.

"We are here today to ask you to shop local and sustain our local economy," the group's leader, a man who identified himself only as Brother Carter, read into a bullhorn. "And not reward the 1 percent, large corporate stores like Macy's, whose profits enrich the 1 percent, while they pay next to nothing to their workers, the 99 percent."

The group stayed inside the store for several minutes chanting slogans such as, "They call it profit; we call it robbery." Several shoppers crowded around taking photos with their cellphones.

"I just was took back by surprise that they came into Macy's," said Beronica Jones, 39, of Reno, who was carrying a Gap bag. "I guess that it's positive for people to hear it when they're shopping for Christmas, when we're consuming."

After most of the crowd had cleared out of the store, two young women wearing Macy's badges approached one of the protesters to ask what their rally was all about. One explained that it was to call attention to workers who perform all the labor but do not share in profits.

The employees nodded their heads in agreement.

A Macy's manager threatened to arrest a reporter for The Associated Press before she could ask for the names of the employees or the manager.

Betsy Nelson, a spokeswoman for Macy's, declined to comment on the group's assertion that the chain is among the "1 percent." Nelson said Macy's usually asks the media to check in before reporting at its stores but apologized for the manager who threatened to have the reporter arrested.

"We are a place where people shop. We are not necessarily a place to protest," she said.

Along with identifying new protest targets, people with the Occupy movement energized more established awareness campaigns.

In Emeryville, a small city on San Francisco Bay that has been transformed from a manufacturing area to a shopping destination, more than 60 people attended a Native American community's 10th annual Black Friday protest of the Bay Street Mall.

Corrina Gould, a lead organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, said the goal is to educate shoppers that the mall was built in 2002 on a sacred Ohlone burial site.

About one-third of the people at Friday's protest came from neighboring Oakland's Occupy movement, and Gould said having the new voices was invigorating.

Jesse Smith, an Occupy Oakland protester, passed out fliers encouraging mall shoppers to instead support local businesses in downtown Oakland to help "keep them in the black."

___

Williams reported from Sacramento. Associated Press Writer Terry Collins contributed reporting from Emeryville.

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Judge grants appeal to Telmex in TV dispute: report (Reuters)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? A judge has granted tycoon Carlos Slim's Telmex an appeal against a government decision that denied the phone company entry into the television market in Mexico, daily El Universal reported on Thursday.

Mexico's Communications and Transport ministry in May rejected Slim's efforts to tap the domestic television market by refusing to change Telmex's concession to allow the new service.

According to El Universal, the judge found that the ministry did not make a thorough review of the case, and is now requesting that the government look at Telmex's request again and make a new decision.

The ministry said one of the reasons stopping Telmex from winning the TV permit was that the company, Mexico's leading fixed-line phone service provider, was giving rivals poor service when connecting them to its nationwide network.

Telmex challenged the ministry's stance, saying it had fully complied with key conditions for its TV debut.

Telmex and the ministry had no immediate comment on El Universal's report.

(Reporting by Cyntia Barrera Diaz, editing by Bernard Orr)

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Apollo Hospitals to launch 100 diabetes-treatment clinics (Reuters)

MUMBAI (Reuters) ? Apollo Hospitals Enterprise said on Wednesday it plans to launch 100 clinics dedicated to treat diabetes across India in three months.

The clinics would work on a specifically developed clinical pathway and offer standardised care to the diabetic patients, it said in a statement.

"Keeping in mind the rising burden of diabetes, India would need an integrated framework that would enable diabetics manage their lifestyle better," Chairman Prathap Reddy was quoted as saying in the statement.

(Reporting by Kaustubh Kulkarni in Mumbai)

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International community makes last-ditch attempt to save Russian space probe

Officials from NASA and the European Space Agency have pitched in to help save the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe, which was supposed to fly to a Martian moon to collect soil samples but is instead stuck in orbit around Earth.?

An international effort is under way to save Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars, but time is quickly running out on propelling the probe toward the Red Planet.

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The interplanetary undertaking is designed to visit Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, and return samples to Earth by 2014.

But?Phobos-Grunt's deadline?only chance for departure from Earth orbit is projected to be Nov. 24, due to the alignment of Earth and Mars as well as the spacecraft's fuel status to attain the outward-bound oomph required.

Using powerful radio dishes to monitor the vehicle, officials from the European Space Agency, NASA and Russia have been engaged in a global endeavor to rescue the spacecraft, which has been stranded in low-Earth orbit since its Nov. 8 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After the?Phobos-Grunt probe?separated from its Zenit booster, the probe failed to perform a critical maneuver needed to begin the trek toward Mars. [Photos: Russia's Mars Moon Mission]

"We are trying to help them out of trouble," said Wolfgang Hell, the service manager who is overseeing the European Space Agency's support to Russia's NPO Lavochkin, the main contractor on the Phobos-Grunt project. Hell is based at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany.

"Normally, we were supposed to step in, so to speak, and provide tracking services with our ground station network once the spacecraft was on an escape trajectory to Mars," Hell told SPACE.com. "It was never planned that we would support the spacecraft while in the near-Earth phase."

Hell said that his Russian colleagues have gained a better understanding of what ails the spacecraft. "They reached the conclusion that they have some kind of power problem onboard. So they have become more specific in terms of what we should be doing to help them."

But that help embraces a number of challenges, Hell said.

For instance, the spacecraft risks running out of electrical power each time the probe is eclipsed as it spins around Earth. Commanding?Phobos-Grunt?, therefore, is possible only while it's facing the sun.

Also, due to a lack of downlink from the craft's onboard transponder, ground trackers must rely on imprecise radar-tracking data. Not knowing exactly where the spacecraft is makes pointing ground transmitting antennas correctly a challenge.

"It takes a lot of luck to really hit the spacecraft with a main beam," Hell said. "Because it's in such a low-Earth orbit ? we have so little time, something like six to eight minutes, to get the command up."

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Denmark to approve gay weddings in church (AP)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark ? Denmark's government wants to allow same-sex couples to get married in formal church weddings, instead of the short blessing ceremonies that the state Lutheran Church currently offers.

The government said Wednesday it's preparing to launch a proposal in February to change Denmark's marriage laws.

In 1989, Denmark became the first country to allow registered gay partnerships. Since 1997, gay couples in Denmark can be wed in special blessing ceremonies at the end of the regular church service.

Denmark's Church Affairs Ministry says the law change would put Denmark on par with countries including Iceland and Sweden that allow full wedding ceremonies for gay couples.

Danish clergy would retain the right to refuse to wed gay couples without sanctions.

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Republicans Debate Foreign Policy Tonight (The Atlantic Wire)

The Republican presidential primary debates have shaped the race a lot this year, but mostly in one way: making candidates not named Mitt Romney look bad. Herman Cain and the other two ex-frontrunners -- Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry -- will try to get voters to love them again, while the three remaining not-Romneys -- Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul -- will ask to have their turn. But the topic of tonight's debate -- foreign policy -- might make that tricky. The subject has made Cain look bad?several times already, but he's only the guy who's had the hardest time with it. We'll be liveblogging the debate, which starts at 8p.m. on CNN, right here.

Related: Debate Liveblog: Romney, Perry Attack Each Other

Bachmann said this month the U.S. economy could grow faster if it became less socialist like China, which is a communist country. Paul was booed at an earlier debate for suggesting American foreign policy encouraged terrorists to attack us. Huntsman says he was merely doing his duty to serve the country when he took a job as ambassador to China under President Obama, even though he quit that job to run for Obama's.?Santorum has been the most open about begging for love. When Hot Air's Ed Morrissey asked him if he deserved a "second look" from Republicans, Santorum shot back, "They haven?t really taken a first look." All that time in the wilderness has made the former frat guy introspective. Noting that Saturday Night Live portrays him as "Angry Santorum," he told ABC News' Shushannah Walshe, "I?m not angry. Do you think I?m angry? I?m not an angry guy. I get wound up and passionate about things, but I?m not angry." Still, he's taken apologizing for sounding angry at campaign events, explaining that he's just "passionate." It will be interesting to see how he balances that tonight when talking about Israel, an issue he's shown quite a bit of passion about in previous debates.

Related: GOP Debate: Perry Forgets Things

CNN's Todd Graham sums up their positions like this:

  • Negotiating with the Taliban: Yes = Gingrich; No = Romney.
  • If needed, going to war with Iran: Yes = Romney, Gingrich, Santorum; No = Cain, Paul.
  • Use of waterboarding: Yes = Cain, Bachmann, Perry; No = Huntsman, Paul.
  • Quickly pulling out of Afghanistan: Yes = Huntsman, Paul; No = Perry, Romney.
  • Giving foreign aid without preconditions (especially to countries like Pakistan): Yes = Bachmann, Santorum; No = Perry, Gingrich.

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