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...erase inaccuracies in your credit report. What is real--and what is very much downplayed by these outfits--is how completely a foreclosure wrecks your finances. Near term, you might get slammed with a massive tax bill, since forgiven debt can be subject to income tax. Long term, car loans and--you guessed it--home loans will be much harder to come by. How's that for walking away? "This is the American Dream ended in disaster," says Odette Williamson, a foreclosure lawyer at the National Consumer Law Center...
...private homes when only parents and their kids are together. But social-host prosecutions can be quite aggressive; in 2002 a Virginia mom and stepfather were sentenced to eight years behind bars for serving their son and his friends for the boy's 16th birthday. The couple had collected car keys in advance, and no one was hurt. But after years of failed appeals, the mom and stepdad, now divorced, had to report to jail last year. (In the end, they had to serve only five months, not eight years...
...have escaped the dragnet. On June 5, militias surrounded a car carrying U.S. diplomats and threatened to kill them. The regime has also arrested and beaten journalists, local and foreign. On June 18, the government eased an earlier ban on foreign aid groups, whom it accused of supporting the MDC, allowing food and HIV/AIDS groups to re-enter the country. But the same day it expelled an official from the U.N. High Commission for Refugees...
...part, because he never lost track of his dad, Big Russ, a Buffalo sanitation worker who survives him. Tim would review his Sunday questions with Big Russ in mind, always asking himself, "What would Dad want to know?" About ten years ago, he decided to buy his father a car. "Buy anything you want, Dad," Tim offered. Big Russ picked a Ford. "So I said, to him, 'Dad, you can get a Mercedes - anything you want,'" Tim told me later. "But he says, 'No Timmy, I want a Crown Vic. That's what the cops drive...
...GEMs certainly aren't the answer to the nation's need for a decent, inexpensive electric car. First of all, they're not that inexpensive - considering what you get, the GEM's price seems a bit too steep. And while the car might work around a small neighborhood, or a dense city like New York, Americans increasingly commute longer and longer distances - an electric car will only work if it can drive the way a gas-powered vehicle can. No auto company has achieved that yet, but the good news is that after years of ignoring electric car research, almost...