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After 35 years in the mortgage industry, Tom Birch took a job as a housing counselor at Boise's Neighborhood Housing Services this past winter. He spends his days meeting with people who can no longer afford their mortgage payments. It has been tough going. More than most, Birch appreciates that mortgage companies were not prepared to handle the number of cases they have seen. He also understands, again probably more than most, that foreclosure is, in certain circumstances, the right outcome...
...what would help him do his job, the thing he most wants from a lender when he sends in an application for a loan modification - asking for something like a reduced interest rate that could help keep a family in its home - is simple. "I just want to know someone is looking at it," he says. Often, that hasn't been the case. Banks simply don't call back...
Kenneth Feinberg, the Washington lawyer who had the thankless job of figuring out how to compensate victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, is now hard at work - as a "special master" appointed by the Treasury Secretary - figuring out how to compensate employees of corporations bailed out by taxpayers since last fall. The House and Senate are crafting legislation that includes "say on pay" shareholder votes on executive-comp packages and (in the House version) calls for regulators to vet incentive pay at financial firms on an ongoing basis. The Securities and Exchange Commission is for the first time attempting...
Your article on Newark, N.J., mayor Cory Booker provides a fascinating portrait of a politician who seems to deeply care about his job and the welfare of his constituents [July 27]. As a property owner in Newark, I have seen quality-of-life changes such as clearing out abandoned buildings and creating and improving parks. Such developments, although small, are the nucleus of positive change for the residents of Newark. Your comment that Booker might be "just Obama-lite," however, is degrading. As your article demonstrates, Booker has proved his ability to lead a large and troubled city. He stands...
...Joel Stein wheedled an invitation to participate in an event at a mosque, Jewish temple or Hindu shrine and produced a column similar to the one he wrote about Saddleback Church, he would probably lose his job [July 27]. So why is it O.K. to generalize one small event at one church on one night into an indictment of Christians, especially Evangelicals? In America, we have freedom not only of religion but also of taste and style and, yes, even humor. But what can possibly make Stein's humor superior to anybody else's? There have always been scoffers...