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...donors responsible for CAP's success are not bragging, at least in public anyway. The group was formed with significant seed money by the families of three wealthy liberals, financier George Soros, Progressive insurance magnate Peter Lewis, and Herb and Marion Sandler, who once owned Golden West Savings and Loan. All three benefactors are represented directly or indirectly on the CAP board. Since 2005, the larger group of wealthy liberals, known as the Democracy Alliance, has also begun to contribute significant sums to the effort. Rob McKay, the heir to a Taco Bell fortune and chairman of the Alliance, says...
...Bennett complained angrily that after authorizing Starr's office to investigate the Lewinsky case, Holder's department had done nothing to defend the prosecutors, including longtime assistant U.S. Attorneys on loan to Starr's office, from harsh personal and professional attacks by Clinton's lawyers...
...high foreclosure rates. (Wells Fargo denies the accusation, and has asked a judge to dismiss the suit.) Countrywide Financial (now merged with Bank of America), which also attended the Miami Gardens clinic, last month settled lender-fraud complaints brought against it by 11 states by agreeing to lower home-loan amounts and interest rates at a cost of $8.4 billion...
Either way, it was obvious at Tuesday night's clinic how desperately these communities need massive mortgage aid right now - and how big a challenge providing it can be. A large group of residents from a newer, more upscale Miami Gardens housing development called Coconut Cay showed up for loan relief. During the overpriced-housing boom of this decade, some of the houses went for more than $500,000 - but now a number of buyers are wrestling with more mortgage costs than their battered finances can handle. It's a reminder that rash borrowers are often as responsible...
...long boom, Japan was the world's largest donor. Now, it's fifth. Aso might reverse the trend. In August, Japan's Foreign Ministry requested a 13.6% increase in next year's foreign-aid budget. In October, Aso made headlines when he signed off on a record $4.5 billion loan to India. That commitment followed on the heels of Japan's promise in May to double the amount of aid it doles out to Africa by 2012. With China's footprint in Africa growing ever larger, Japan has opened three new embassies on the continent...