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...they would lend is still tied up in those real estate loans. Just as important, though, other places business owners have looked to for funding in recent years, like home-equity loans and credit lines from nonbank finance companies like CIT, aren't likely to bounce back to their former glory anytime soon...
Abortion has been one of Stupak's chief issues in public office: he is a leader of the group Democrats for Life. A former Eagle Scout, Stupak's Catholic faith has always been important to him. His religiosity only deepened after his son, Bart Jr., committed suicide in May 2000, which the family blamed on Accutane, an acne medication. Until recently he lived in the infamous C Street House, a group lodging for young and upcoming religious conservative members of the House and Senators run by a Christian organization (other alums include Larry Craig, John Ensign and Mark Sanford...
...Egypt's eastern frontier governorate, for only the past 2½ months. But the broad-shouldered official is comfortable in his new role. He knows the turf well - the northern half of Egypt's arid Sinai Peninsula - and is well aware of its challenges. As a military general and former chief of Egyptian military intelligence, he's already well acquainted with his friends and foes in the region. (Watch a video on the tunnel smugglers of the Gaza Strip...
...border. "There's a sense that Mexico has decided its future depends on the U.S., and it's not paying much attention to what other countries are doing," says Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a former adviser to the Mexican government. But Mexico has paid a price for focusing so much on its relationship with Washington. It sends an inordinate 80% of its exports to the U.S., for example. As a result, it has been hit by the recession harder than many other Latin American countries...
Mexico first needs to relocate its diplomatic mojo. In the 20th century it was known for being the interlocutor between the U.S. and Cuba and for heading the Contadora group of Latin nations that helped broker peace during the Central American civil wars of the 1980s. Many point to former Mexican President Vicente Fox's 2002 falling-out with Cuba as a cause of Mexico's foreign policy retrenchment. But ironically, says O'Neil, a major factor has been democratization. When Mexico was under the dictatorial rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from 1929 to 2000, the government could...