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...What They're Selling In Namibia: On Oct. 28, Namibia's government held the first legal ivory auction since 1999, with more than seven tons of elephant tusks raising over $1 million from buyers in China and Japan. The sale--sanctioned by an international-wildlife-trade agreement--will soon be followed by auctions in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, with the proceeds earmarked for elephant conservation efforts. Detractors say the auctions could rekindle black-market demand for ivory...
...FDIC chief Sheila Bair has been pushing to use new loan-guarantee authority passed under the $700 billion banking bailout to adjust troubled homeowner mortgages. The plan would provide $50 billion from the government to be tapped as insurance for banks willing to adjust mortgages in a loss-sharing agreement. The FDIC would guarantee any losses on loans readjusted for homeowners who can show a 38% debt-to-income ratio, similar to what the FDIC worked out for the 60,000-odd bad loans it ate when it closed IndyMac bank...
...Congolese government sketched out an agreement where rebels and militias would join together in a national army. Nkunda was eventually offered the post of general, but instead defected; he has been fighting for the disarmament of Rwandan Hutus in eastern Congo ever since. Despite the 2006 election of a democratic government - not to mention the presence of 18,000 United Nations peacekeepers - efforts to achieve peace have been stymied, in part, because of Nkunda's resistance. His rebel group recently took over a national park that's a sanctuary for endangered gorillas, forcing park rangers to flee. Human Rights Watch...
...with members of the public who don't care about these issues. Take the head of the Christian Coalition's legal arm, Jay Sekulow. He cares passionately about exactly the same issues I care passionately about. Obviously we deeply disagree on abortion and gay rights. But we have strong agreement on freedom of speech and free exercise of religion. The ACLU absolutely defends the free speech rights of anti-abortion protestors...
...security coordinator, General Keith Dayton, acting as adviser to the Palestinians - is to persuade skeptical Israelis that Palestinians can ensure security inside the West Bank, a first step in building trust that would allow Israel to turn over control to the Palestinian Authority as part of any peace agreement. So far, the plan has succeeded: The streets are safer for ordinary Palestinians, and Israelis have more confidence in their Palestinian security counterparts. But it's precisely because this unit forms part of a plan to prepare the Palestinians to take control of the area that the Hebron settlers...