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Under current bankruptcy law, Porter says, bankruptcy courts have "no tools to reduce the principal, stretch out the payments or adjust the interest rate" - that is, since judges can't adjust mortgages to make them easier to pay, people end up ditching them instead...
Hanks does us all a service by helping to rekindle America's dying interest in history. With professional journalism dwindling, there is a real need for us to make sure that we understand events for ourselves. But if we deliberately look away from controversial events, we can never hope to utilize history as the learning tool that it is. Henry A. Jensen, HEIMSHEIM, GERMANY...
...moving overlay and text and stories around like a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes you can't tell advertisement from original content - and I mean this in a good way. Nothing really intrudes on the experience. If you don't like what you see, swipe it away. But if it does interest you, you can be sure there's something you can touch to lead you deeper into a whole new world...
...took the iPad to dinner with journalist friends that first evening. Everyone expressed interest, but we kept the machine to the side while we gossiped about other things. We did call upon it to answer trivia: What kind of movie career did Farrah Fawcett have? Was it insignificant enough to justify her exclusion from the Oscars' annual montage of farewells last month? (Answer: She made Cannonball Run but was quite good in The Apostle. Otherwise, she was a TV star.) It was easier to look the information up on the iPad rather than switch on a computer or fumble through...
...Carrington family grew larger and crazier, as Alexis purred and Krystle pouted, as Blake surged from kidnapping to murder rap, Forsythe kept his hold on the viewers' belief and rooting interest. He knew that his job was to make the impossible sound plausible, and that not every actor has to be Brando. The craft can be sedative as well as stimulant. There's a place for the traditional performer - the audience's ordinary extraordinary surrogate, the one who explains to them the awful thing that just happened...