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...underwrite home mortgages. Advocates in the region hope those sorts of new approaches will be just the start. In Mexico, advocates for the rural poor - hundreds of thousands of whom migrate illegally to the U.S. each year to work - insist there are myriad efforts the U.S. could aid to curtail the flow at its source, inside Mexico, instead of throwing billions at building walls along the border. One is the growing number of microcredit banks that help remote rural towns finance businesses. "If I could sit down with Presidents Bush and Calderon in Merida, I would say, 'Look...
...humor in this role-reversal on the hackneyed, "Revenge of the Nerds" theme. In this case, surly, plainspoken officers of the law matter-of-factly foiled the scheming scholars’ painstakingly crafted plan. And it is initially hard to find fault in an arrest that might curtail future mass-scale "Star Wars" idolatry. I for one plan to flee this city and never return if the Beacon Hill monument is ever altered to resemble...
House debate over what Democrats call an escalation of U.S. forces in Iraq officially began this afternoon. But the nonbinding resolution, expressing Congress's disapproval of President Bush's troop surge, is just the first step in the opposition party's plans to curtail some of the President's latitude to operate in Iraq...
...that courses through the tiny room, a collective surge of emotion connecting today's Shi'ites with the events that marked their division from Sunnis and centuries of persecution, warfare and sectarianism. It is a powerful ritual of Shi'ite unity - one that the Sunni Taliban leadership attempted to curtail during their reign in Kabul...
...wrote in an e-mail that he believes that the current account will eventually adjust. “Differences in productivity growth affect the real exchange rate in the long run,” he wrote. To respond to the growing deficits, President Bush’s administration should curtail discretionary spending, he added. Feldstein said he did not believe the dollar needed to fall immediately. “If the savings rate doesn’t change, then depreciation won’t help,” he explained. In his e-mail, Rogoff also highlighted China?...