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So going forward, how do we strike the right balance between the "democratization of credit" and the overextension of debt? We have to go back to the notion of credit basics. In other words, to buy a house, you can't borrow more than, let's say, 2½ times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Americans Got into a Credit-Card Mess | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

Los Angeles was stunned at the news. L.A. Police Department chief William Bratton was stepping down, less than halfway through his second term, to take a job in the private sector. Even Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who Bratton has partnered with so successfully to lower the city's crime rate, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why is Los Angeles Losing Its Police Commissioner? | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

Born in Michigan and raised in Northbrook, Ill., Hughes never went Hollywood; the industry went to him. His signature movies were written and filmed where he grew up. As a copywriter and then as a contributor to National Lampoon magazine, where his "Vacation '58" humor piece led him into movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hughes, Chronicler of '80s Teens, Dies | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

The release removes one obvious thorn between Washington and Pyongyang, whose relations in the past six months have sunk to a level "that's as bad as I've ever seen them," as Clinton's former ambassador to the U.N., Bill Richardson, said on Tuesday. Now the question of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Clinton Reverse the U.S.–North Korea Downward Spiral of Diplomacy? | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

The biggest presidential birthday perk of all, though, may be the presents. In 1912 the people of Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's hometown, gave the President miniature ivory portraits of his parents. George W. Bush in 2006 got a belt buckle from visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and cuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Birthdays | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

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