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...Friday's bombing came a day after a rocket exploded 50 yards from the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a news conference in the Green Zone, causing him to cringe and duck just minutes after Prime Minister al-Maliki had said Ban's visit showed that the city was "on the road to stability." For those Iraqis were starting to breath easier in the capital and take advantage of the spring weather, the blast was another reminder of how far the U.S and Iraqi governments still have to go in implementing their ambitious five-week old security plan...
Edward Gramlich, a former Federal Reserve Board member now at the Urban Institute, says Congress should sic bank examiners on subprime lenders and ban certain kinds of loans--especially those involving balloon payments. But Gramlich, author of the forthcoming The Rise and Fall of the Subprime Mortgage Market, also sees benefits in the subprime boom. "There seem to be more gainers than losers, and unless the losers lose a lot more per household, the net gains would seem to outpace the losses," he wrote in February. So, yes, things may have gotten out of hand. But neither should we clamor...
GEORGIA A serious geopolitical fight gets weird, with a Russian ban on Georgian wine and mineral water...
...content of student discourse by specifically barring clubs that address “human sexuality.” Such content-based regulation not only denies students a necessary forum for discussion and education about sexuality, but, more appallingly, it thinly disguises the legislature’s discriminatory interest in banning gay-straight alliances. Our primary objection to this legislation stems from its brazen attempt to regulate the content of student discourse; such regulation, in nearly all forms, stifles the freedom of inquiry so fundamental to education. Like classrooms, student groups and clubs provide an essential venue through which students...
...Because of the ban on discussion, draft copies of the new law have yet to be released and it remains unclear exactly how much real protection will be given to individual property rights. All land in China is, in any case, owned by the state, and individuals can only claim right to a 70-year lease on buildings - something the new law won't change...