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...Congress next year, says the banks still need a push. In an editorial last week, the Miami Herald also broached the subject, saying that if lenders "do not step up their efforts to help stressed-out homeowners," then Congress should consider a "change in federal law that would allow bankruptcy judges to reduce the principal owned on home mortgages." In other words, if Williams can't get his law passed in his hometown, perhaps he'll have better luck later if he wins a seat on Capitol Hill...
...backtracking on his original remarks regarding the actions of the Cambridge police, in reality, to arrest a man in his own house is, in fact, stupid--particularly if he is only angry and is nonthreatening. We as a country are in turmoil when the masses are too immature to allow our distinguished and accomplished representatives to openly participate in intelligent, pointed dialogue about the incident. We need to continue a broader discussion of the race and class issues that still plague our society. Alison McDonald, PASADENA, CALIF...
...candidates' victories swell, some fear that heavy disappointment in Abdullah's strongholds may yield protests. While no one foresees the kind of unrest that followed the disputed Iranian election in June, each candidate's lack of an "organized mechanism" to cope with masses of angered, loosely knit partisans could allow the situation to boil over with time, says Haroun Mir, director of the Afghan Center for Research and Policy Studies. "If one group feels left out, it will create problems for everybody," Mir says. Indeed, Abdullah's campaign manager told an Abu Dhabi-based newspaper last month to predict street...
...Troublingly, Ho Chi Minh City is considered the most progressive region in the country in terms of HIV/AIDS advocacy. The government AIDS committee runs public education campaigns and training programs for local officials. Last year, it supported the decision to allow some of the orphans from the Mai Hoa AIDS Center to attend the school's weekly flag ceremony and occasionally sit at the end of the table in some classes, says Le Truong Giang, deputy chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Provincial AIDS Committee. Giang concedes that after last week's unfortunate episode, those efforts were clearly...
...regime that has been in place since 1992. Modernizing his oil fields depends on access to Western technology currently denied him by sanctions. In fact, the only reason the Libyans handed over the two agents named in the Lockerbie indictment was the prospect of closing the matter and to allow the lifting of U.N. sanctions against Libya. Even then, it took eight years of coaxing by the Saudis and South Africa's then-president Nelson Mandela to persuade him to hand them over (with Ghaddafi demanding assurances that he wouldn't be held personally responsible, and that the trial would...