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...Some things have changed since the credit crisis broke. "Large banks have at least temporarily backed out of this business," says Chris Kukla of the Center for Responsible Lending, which tracks predatory lending. "But in the fringe financial business, there are plenty of firms that are willing to take advantage of subprime borrowers' difficulties accessing credit." (See how Americans are spending...
...center wanted to collaborate with the Commonwealth Journal, a radio program on WUMB 91.9, to help draw on Boston’s intellectual wealth, said Susan Hartnett, the center’s executive director...
Despite a close first set, Harvard (1-10) suffered a 3-0 loss to Springfield (12-6) last night at the Malkin Athletic Center. The team had leads early in each of the three games, but could not take advantage of them, giving the win to the Pride...
Virginia's Fifth Congressional District is about the size of New Jersey. Sprawling from the center of the state down to the North Carolina border, it was once home to thriving textile and tobacco industries. But jobs have been drying up for decades; in the city of Martinsville, unemployment has soared over 20%. Outside such liberal enclaves as Charlottesville, the district is a conservative stronghold of farms and small-business owners who resent federal intrusions. In 2008, Perriello cashiered incumbent Republican Virgil Goode by capitalizing on an Obama-fueled turnout of African-American and college-age voters. And while Perriello...
...Nigeria has been wracked by periodic episodes of violence for decades. The country's 150 million people are divided about equally between Christians and Muslims and further splintered into about 250 tribes. Jos, some 300 miles north of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, sits smack-dab in the center of Nigeria's tumultuous "middle belt," a so-called cultural fault line that divides the country's Muslim north from the Christian south. The "middle belt" is a melting pot where the major ethnic groups of Nigeria - Hausa-Fulani Muslims and Yoruba and Igbo Christians - usually coexist peacefully but sometimes collide...