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There are several reasons why helping people pay for things that they cannot afford already does not work. In the case of housing, the most compelling one is that giving people the ability to pay for a house which will never have any equity value for them simply buys them time to make payments while they find another place to live...
...seven-plus years that the crime has languished unsolved, the 2001 murder of Chandra Levy, a 24-year-old intern in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has become Washington, D.C.'s best-known cold case. But the trail heated up this week, with Levy's parents and law enforcement sources indicating an arrest was imminent. The likely suspect: Ingmar Guandique, a 27-year-old Salvadoran immigrant currently serving time for assaulting two women in the spring and summer of 2001 in the same park where Levy's remains were found. Guandique had also been implicated in the murder...
While an arrest might bring a measure of closure to her grieving family, it also raises a battery of questions - none more important than how D.C. police failed to mount a case against such a compelling suspect...
...police combed Rock Creek Park in Northwest Washington for signs of the missing woman, tips rushed in: Levy was buried in Virginia, or at the bottom of the Potomac, or had become pregnant and fled. Not until the attacks of Sept. 11 did the media spotlight trained on the case begin to flicker. Finally, on May 22, 2002, a man walking his dog in a Rock Creek Park ravine discovered Levy's remains. What he thought was a turtle shell turned out to be her skull...
...talking in darkness until a generator started up. According to the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index, in January this year average Baghdadis were getting 13 hours of electricity per day, up from seven in 2008. A lot of statistics suggest that life in Iraq is improving - though, in the case of electricity, the same index estimated prewar levels to be 16 to 24 hours...