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Local officials have programs in place to help buyers but admit they're frustrated they can't do more. "We want to help families own homes," says Tom Freeman, spokesman for Riverside County's economic-development agency. "We do not want to see outside investors coming in and turning them into rental units." For their part, investors say they are buying up houses in such disrepair that first-time buyers would not be able to secure loans for them - and helping neighborhoods by making these units livable again. "I don't think anybody should have a problem with that," says...
...College now expects to admit between 10 and 20 students who have completed one to two years of study at another college or university, according to Director of Transfer Admissions E. Marlene Vergara Rotner...
...believe that the residential experience is part of undergraduate education. We can’t really separate the two,” said Joshua G. McIntosh, associate dean of student life. “We wouldn’t want to admit transfers if we didn’t have space for them residentially...
...essentially steroid-free." While Washington Post sportswriter Thomas Boswell would call Oakland slugger Jose Canseco "the most conspicuous example of a player who has made himself great with steroids" later that year, Canseco shrugged off the charge; he went on to be named American League MVP. (He would later admit to doping from as early as 1985, saying steroids in late-1980s and 1990s baseball were as common "as a cup of coffee...
McCain, meanwhile, is still trying to enforce a no-look-back zone on the facts in our book and on his presidential bid. Palin, after all, was a bet that didn't pay off - and probably backfired - for the Arizona Republican. Understandably, McCain isn't keen to admit he played a poor hand. During a Jan. 12 appearance on the Today show, he was asked by Matt Lauer if it was true that his campaign had done only a cursory background check on Palin before selecting her as his running mate. McCain disavowed responsibility for the process used to scrutinize...