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...Texas. He had spent three years working toward a degree in criminal justice, and now hopes to find a way to complete it without having to sit in classrooms full of people, a prospect he can't bear. He walked out on a job answering phones for a credit-card company last month and spends his days on his father's farm in Kemp, Texas, working...
SHOULD YOU NEED ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID bankruptcy--a humbling process often triggered by illness, divorce or job loss--look no further than a bill about to be passed by Congress that will make it harder for middle-class families to erase medical, credit-card and other debt...
Today 70% of individuals who file for bankruptcy protection do so under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy code, which requires that most of your assets be confiscated but wipes out most debt, such as medical and credit-card bills (though you're still obligated to pay any child support, taxes and student loans). Under the new law, less debt can be erased under Chapter 7. And if your income is above the median in your state--and you can afford to pay at least $6,000 over five years--you will be forced into Chapter 13, which requires a repayment...
...Syrian withdrawal may be a major setback to Hizbollah, because Syria guarantees the air bridge from Iran that keeps Nasrallah's militias supplied with weapons. (For Damascus, enabling Hizballah in this manner was considered a strategic trump card in pressing Israel towards concluding a peace deal that would return the occupied Golan Heights to Syria. ) But the U.S. has made shutting down the movement's armed wing a priority, shared by Israel and, of course, legally mandated by Resolution...
Ever since George W. Bush came into office in 2001, he has talked off and on about bringing democracy and freedom to the Middle East--a goal regarded by many as completely laudable but utterly unrealistic. The region has long been a card catalog of repressive, hereditary kleptocracies, held in place by exported oil and internal-security forces, and, since Sept. 11, a source of violent enmity toward the U.S. But as Bush's second term opened, he was blessed with rare opportunities to throw U.S. weight and prestige behind signs of reform. So Washington turned up the rhetoric about...