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What really irks Butler and her neighbors is that they were led to expect much more. They saw hope last summer when Congress passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, which seemed to promise housing relief for hundreds of thousands of homeowners like Butler via mortgage-restructuring aid. But for reasons no one in Washington has adequately explained, that part of the bill never really materialized. What foreclosure-ravaged communities got instead were slivers of a $4 billion Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) fund to buy and refurbish already foreclosed homes. The city of Miami Gardens received $6.8 million, enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grass-Roots Efforts Aim to Ease the Foreclosure Crisis | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Policewomen, clad in black chadors, with guns slung over their shoulders: the cover of Transit Tehran - an anthology of writing, art and photography - bears exactly the sort of bristly image you would expect to see of the Iranian capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lifting the Veil | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...This year, the show will bring together professional Asian designers, such as Issey Miyake, as well as students and alums from The Parsons School of Design. According to the Project East finance director Ivy A. Lee ’09, the show itself costs around $30,000, and they expect to raise $150,000 at the end of the day. Sponsors range from Macy’s to Red Bull. Given such high stakes, a serious attitude dominates the show’s operations—from the music mixed and produced by Michael R. Polino...

Author: By Hyung W. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Cantab Wears Prada | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

TIME: What are the key issues and new ideas you want to put forward in the next two years? Boehner: It's not what I want to do; it's what our conference wants to do, and I expect that I'll lead an effort amongst our members to learn from the results of these last two years, to understand more clearly why we don't do better in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic states, upper Midwest, the West Coast ... We have a lot of learning to do before we begin to stake out those new solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Boehner Talks About the GOP's Plight in Congress | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...pragmatists in the House Republican Conference? Boehner: If you're looking at my voting record, I have one of the most conservative voting records in the House. But I don't wear it on my sleeve. [Laughs.] I don't shove it in people's face. I don't expect everybody to vote the way I do ... There's a lot of labels that get thrown around, and one of the reasons I don't belong to any of these organizations in our Congress is [that] because when you join one, you get labeled ... We want to be bold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Boehner Talks About the GOP's Plight in Congress | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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