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However, Scott Bilker, a consumer-credit expert who runs the website DebtSmart.com, says you should pause before following the pack. He says the diminished view of the housing market is causing some people to walk away from their house too quickly. Defaulting on your home loan, like defaulting on your credit cards, can hurt your credit score. Instead, he suggests splitting your available cash between your credit-card and home-loan commitments and contacting your lenders. Bilker says you can often strike a deal, especially these days. "Tell them you are thinking of contacting a bankruptcy lawyer, so they...
Audiard is an expert at using this trait of Rahim’s character early in the film to capture the empathy, if not sympathy, of the audience. As El Djebena prepares for his first hit to gain protection from the Corsicans, he sits in front of a mirror trying to teach himself how to hide a razorblade in the side of his mouth, and his gums begin to bleed. The look of agonizing determination in Rahim’s face at this and many moments in the film evoke a documentary authenticity. The typically circuitous plot twists...
...gastronomic end point. But this is America. We're about competition and reinvention - not just at the Burger Bash, but also in the omnipotent market, where fortunes rise and fall over the narrowest bits of brand differentiation. (Take away Ronald and the King, and only an expert can tell the basic McDonald's and Burger King hamburgers apart.) (See the 10 worst fast-food meals...
...important piece in that picture," says Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think tank. However, despite Washington's praise for the progress made under Uribe's leadership, the rejection of another re-election bid actually "helps American relations a lot," says Adam Isacson, a Colombia expert with the Washington-based Center for International Policy. "I don't think the Obama Administration was really relishing the idea of having to work with an ally in his third term and clearly unwilling to give up power." That would be not just because of concerns over an erosion of democracy...
This points again to the old habits - the nationalism, the overbearing management - that the Kremlin is dragging into its modernization drive. Masha Lipman, a political expert at the Carnegie Endowment in Moscow, says Russia will never succeed unless those habits are left in the past. "A modern, competitive economy can't thrive in an environment where the quality of governance is this low," she says. "And why is it low? It is low because they seek to control everything, because they do not trust their own people, and as a result the people do not trust them...