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...just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today.' THOMAS J. DART, sheriff of Cook County, Ill., on suspending foreclosure evictions in the Chicago area because renters were not being properly notified about their landlords' financial problems...
...widely trusted but mostly mysterious agency known as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has ever had a public face, it was probably that of Lydia Lobsiger, the happy and relieved East Peoria, Ill., widow who in 1934 was the first American to get her little pile of savings back from the feds after a terrifying run on her local Fon du Lac State Bank. Now, almost 75 years later, the FDIC has been busy projecting a newer face, and it belongs to Sheila Bair, a 54-year-old lawyer from Kansas...
...Petrella has descended into a profound depression. Her family and doctors say she has lost the will to live, her body weight has fallen to 85 lbs., and that further detention would probably kill her. Citing that prognosis, Sarkozy reversed the extradition order, leaving Petrella a free - albeit seriously ill - woman in France...
...look at the Ivy League’s Borrow Direct interlibrary loan program in which all the Ivies—except Harvard—take part, despite the fact that Harvard has the fourth largest library collection in the world. Although Harvard does participate in a type of ILL program, it usually slaps charges onto the loans...
Speculating about the health of companies has long been considered imprudent in Washington, where an ill-considered, offhand remark by politicians can cost businesses and shareholders millions of dollars. With stock markets reeling, the slightest hint of corporate instability today can sink stock prices, making it unwise to suggest that financial titan X may be in danger of joining the roster of bailout candidates...