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...city north of Miami, knows the Feds aren't likely to approve his proposal. But he wants to get the discussion started - and to keep any pressure he can on lenders. "Even if we can't compel them, we want lenders to know that we're expecting good corporate citizenship in this process," he says. "The real relief in this credit crisis has to be directed at the thousands and thousands of people whose homes we can help save. It has to be part of the conversation...
...houses in many cases are worth less now than the mortgages anyway). That's the kind of foreclosure-prevention relief that cities like Miami Gardens thought last summer's federal legislation was going to facilitate but didn't. Which leaves communities to depend on little more than good corporate citizenship from many of the same companies that helped create the housing mess in the first place...
...telephone address to tens of thousands of his supporters who had gathered in a Bangkok stadium, Thaksin brushed off concerns about his refuge woes. Several countries, he has claimed, have offered him honorary citizenship. Although Thaksin didn't specify his possible future home, the Bahamas did express initial willingness to host the former premier when he fled Thailand this summer after his wife was found guilty of tax evasion. Thai media have also reported that the Central African Republic might take Thaksin in if he's willing to invest some of his fortune in one of Africa's poorest countries...
...pledged to help Obama lead the nation through the dangers ahead, and praised his victory as a civil rights breakthrough of particular significance for black Americans. "Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this the greatest nation on earth," he told the crowd, flanked by his wife, Cindy, his running mate, Sarah Palin, and her husband, Todd...
...dramatically - and non-Cuban Latinos like Basurto, who hails from Guayaquil, Ecuador, don't feel so much like the minority they were when he arrived in this country a decade ago. Basurto, in fact, has been feeling so emboldened of late that he went ahead and got his U.S. citizenship this year - and registered to vote the same...