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Under current bankruptcy law, Porter says, bankruptcy courts have "no tools to reduce the principal, stretch out the payments or adjust the interest rate" - that is, since judges can't adjust mortgages to make them easier to pay, people end up ditching them instead...
...Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, Chrysler, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Fannie Mae, AIG and Freddie Mac. Industry-wise, tobacco again claimed the worst reputation; last year it shared that honor with financial services, which this year held the second worst reputation. Third worst was insurance. At the top end of the industry-reputation list were technology, travel and tourism, and retail...
...Limthongkul placed sanitary napkins soaked with menstrual blood around a Bangkok monument as part of a spell designed to vanquish Thaksin. Many locals seem to believe that witchcraft will be just as influential in driving the course of Thai politics as good governance or normal political dissent. In the end, that may be the true curse of Thailand's politics...
...warm February afternoon and the sun is streaming through the open doors of a large, airy farmhouse set at the far end of a guarded estate outside Libya's capital, Tripoli. Trays of dates and almonds are laid out in the living room, where the owner of the house, relaxed in a traditional North African robe and slippers, sips orange juice freshly squeezed from the fruit trees outside. All is a picture of prosperity and calm...
...pedophilia among its ranks is no larger than that of society in general. Those arguments - We're no worse than the rest of you! - effectively surrender claims to moral superiority, let alone divine direction. As a Catholic, I believe in the workings of divine grace, that in the end light defeats darkness; but as a reasoning human being, I know that no mortal institution has direct access to it. If the Holy Spirit guides cardinals when they choose a Pope, where is it when bishops are moving ordained rapists from parish to parish...