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...suggested. "They save up. They search. They choose a home that feels like the perfect place to start a life. They secure a fixed-rate mortgage at a reasonable rate, make a down payment, and make their mortgage payments each month. They are as responsible as anyone could ask them to be." (Read: "Will President Obama's New Housing Plan Work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House of Cards: The Faces Behind Foreclosures | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Stay Well, or Lose It All What's an American dream story without a lucky break? Joseph Zachery's took the form of a mysterious stranger who pulled to the side of the road one day in 1986. An older white guy, slowing his car to ask a strapping black teenager why he was running down the street. Zachery, who was 19 at the time, could think of no benign reason why this man might be interested in him, but instead of ignoring the driver and running on, he gasped out an answer. His car wouldn't start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House of Cards: The Faces Behind Foreclosures | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

Though isolated in the bleak terrain of New Jersey, the Daily Princetonian is trying hard to innovate. They are now running a regular column called “Ask a Grad Student,” where the anonymous Ph.D. student answers gets to answer such glamorous questions as, “Do grad students shower?” He/she dispels popular doubt by explaining that yes, most grad students do care about hygiene. Sort...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies (and Stanford) | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...Ask a Grad Student” still does not match Princeton’s more established—and notorious—“Ask the Sexpert” column, where professional health experts go into just enough detail to make you never want to have sex at all. This may be the hidden point of the column, since Princeton’s UHS apparently does the “fact-checking...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies (and Stanford) | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...restore the rule of law to allow events like that to happen. Of course, profound challenges remain. Sierra Leone is one of the world's least developed nations. Infant mortality is the worst in the world. Infrastructure is terrible. And a court can only deliver so much. Some people ask whether the money spent on the court wouldn't be better spent on development. But at the end of the day, it's restoring law and order that makes development possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guilty: Justice in Sierra Leone at Last | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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