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...little is likely to be done inside the Beltway - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairwoman Sheila Bair is still pushing for a homeowner-relief plan - local leaders are looking for makeshift solutions at the grass roots. One notion is to let cities use NSP money to leverage lenders into helping more borrowers avoid foreclosure. Since lender banks naturally want foreclosed properties taken off their hands in the NSP buyout - and since reckless and even predatory lending was so often at play in the subprime mess - perhaps they in return ought to be required to show some level of commitment to homeowner...
...Japan is benefiting because of what it isn't. The world's renewed love affair with the nation has blossomed just as many nations are growing wary of the rising influence of Asia's other superpower: China. Unlike Japan, China has done little to mask its global natural-resources grab. As a result, Japan outranked China in a June survey of soft-power effectiveness in six countries by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Far from China eclipsing Japan, as many once thought, the Middle Kingdom's emergence has actually reawakened international admiration of its neighbor. "There's a strong...
...quite useful.FM: When you wrote “Things Fall Apart”, did you have any idea that it would have the impact that it has?Achebe: No, it was impossible to have any such view because there was nothing to base it on. It had not been done before, exactly what I had a mind to do, so, I was hoping it would work, but that was about all. In other words, I wouldn’t have committed suicide if at the end of it they said “Well, this was not good enough...
TIME: The Blue Dog Democrats are also fiscal conservatives. Have you done any outreach to them on banding together on fiscal issues? Boehner: America is a center-right country...
...walking lightly with one hand in his pocket - a stance that has been praised by the security guards at Obama's Chicago home, who said that's exactly how Obama walks out of the door every day. Notchi's tip on Being Obama: all of the above should be done calmly, firmly and with confidence. (See pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...