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Banks could renegotiate loans, but that's not easy, as home loans are often sold to investors, so the original lender has no stake in the credit. The bottom line: "More needs to be done," says Bernard Markstein of the National Association of Home Builders...
...since and I think they're starting to worry," said Kearns, who predicts the Cup favorites will be bidding au revoir in the quarter-finals. The Wallabies' Cup-winning coach of '99, Rod Macqueen, questioned whether the Blacks had the versatility to play more than one style. French mentor Bernard Laporte has accused them of playing to the limit of the rules and exploiting weak refereeing...
...Presidents - would need to be surrounded with the most qualified and competent advisers, particularly when it comes to overseeing homeland security. One of the most damning criticisms of Giuliani, however, has been his record of flawed judgment on personnel. In 2004, Giuliani recommended that President George W. Bush nominate Bernard Kerik to run the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik was a police officer and Giuliani's driver before he was elevated to corrections commissioner and police chief. But the nomination collapsed when information about Kerik's past and possible ties to mob-related businesses began to filter out. Kerik pleaded...
Unlike some Western officials who visit Baghdad, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner had no national troops to buck up when he began his surprise three-day visit Sunday. After all, Paris opposed the U.S.-led war against Saddam Hussein, with warnings of dire consequences that have mostly come to pass. So what was Kouchner's purpose in the Iraqi quagmire that most of his countrymen look to with "we told you so" dismay? In large part, to send the clear signal to Washington that France is determined to continue mending diplomatic relations that deteriorated, in large part, over Iraq...
...trauma of evacuation, and that they were so confident that the nursing home was safe that they extended the offer to staffers and their own family members. The nursing home sat on ground that did not sustain heavy flooding during Betsy, the 1965 hurricane that swamped much of St. Bernard Parish, and in fact appeared to have escaped Katrina's fury moments after the storm passed - until breached and overtopped levees sent a torrent of water through the parish...