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...costs, like private mortgage insurance, which most lenders require for a down payment of less than 20%. On top of a larger than average down payment, you may also be saddled with a premium--generally about 0.5% of your loan--during the first year of payments. But the biggest danger is that you may end up owing much more than your home is worth. That's especially true in the red-hot real estate markets along both coasts. "These loans are a losing proposition," says Dean Baker, a co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "When these...
...responsibilities," a local bbc reporter wrote in an online profile. But could one man take on Kenya's Big Men and force change? The answer, after enough twists and turns to fill a novel, turns out to be yes. Githongo may now live in Oxford, England - testament to the danger he says he faces in Kenya - and his evidence of widespread corruption may have been ignored for almost two years by the government for which he once worked, but the big man is finally shaking things up. Over the past month Githongo, a fastidious diary keeper, has leaked...
...Supreme Court this week refused to hear the appeal of student reporters at an Illinois university whose dean insisted on reviewing the school newspaper before publication. But despite the concern of student journalism advocacy groups, Harvard administrators and scholars say that freedom of speech is not in danger on this campus. After the student newspaper at Governors State University (GSU) criticized the school’s administration, the dean said the paper had to be approved before publication, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Harvard administrators do not censor student publications, even when administrators are concerned about their content...
...plants, which, while not related, set off the nation's first "site-area emergency" at a U.S. nuclear facility in 15 years. The fact that upon further review, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that the incidents were much ado about nothing with "no release of radioactivity... no danger to the public" did little to assuage many people's worst fears...
...next attack. Americans will be rightfully enraged to learn that senior officials were aware of the threat but had concluded that putting adequate safeguards in place to protect their citizens was too difficult or too expensive and then hid from the electorate both the reality of the danger and the decision not to do much about...