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...summer, the Administration's plan to help worthy mortgage holders reduce their monthly payments should show early signs of slowing the year-long acceleration of foreclosure rates. If unemployment and desperation among people with homes worth less than their mortgages leads a greater and greater number of mortgage holders to send their keys back to their lenders, the first, and most important step the government has taken to reverse the collapse of housing will become a disheartening symbol that the Administration and Congress have not solved a big part of the cause of the recession...
...deal with H1N1. Rich countries like the U.S. can afford to spend millions on antivirals like Tamiflu, but in poorer nations, especially in those parts of sub-Saharan Africa where rampant HIV makes the population more vulnerable to secondary infections like flu, H1N1 will likely take a far greater toll. Indeed, health officials said last week that early evidence suggests underlying conditions - including asthma, heart disease, diabetes and tuberculosis - could make H1N1 patients more likely to land in the hospital or die. "That's the big uncertainty," says Fraser...
...Dean Michael D. Smith’s assurances on May 3 that no “specific plans” for layoffs had then been made within FAS, and that students would have greater input in forthcoming aspects of the budgeting process, were heartening. But Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds’s indication at the same forum that official student input in the process would primarily flow through already established committees ought to give some pause. These committees and their selection procedures may not be well-designed to express student interest in this moment of debate over...
...April, the First Circuit Appeal is over—a loss for the Tenenbaum team—and there’s an even greater sense of urgency in the air. The case would have to proceed, it appeared, without the “village” full of Web viewers. Nesson, who had made what one judge called a “powerful, eloquent” argument in support of the Web cast just a few weeks earlier, had predicted the opposite outcome, making the result all the more jarring. “The troops are disheartened...
...Monday, Rice returned to the subject at greater length during a Q&A session with students at a primary school in Washington. Bush, she said, was determined to protect the country after 9/11, but "was very clear that we would do nothing...that was against the law or against our obligations internationally. So the President was only willing to authorize policies that were legal in order to protect the country...