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...Also unconvincing is the claim made by some conservatives that the Clinton Administration's 1995 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations, which pushed banks to lend in poor communities, caused the subprime mortgage lending binge that sparked the current troubles. It's certainly conceivable that Washington's long-held obsession with fostering home ownership helped fuel the housing bubble. But when the subprime lending binge really took off from 2003 to 2006, financial institutions subject to CRA weren't the ones leading the way. Neither were government-sponsored behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie...
...there was at least a new recognition that the E.U. had reached a crossroads in its relationship with Russia. Russia's actions have seriously challenged the E.U.'s long-held belief in "soft power," its ability to influence other nations by non-military means...
...nefarious regional role of Pakistan's intelligence service. Reports in recent days that the CIA has confronted Pakistan with evidence that its spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had a hand in last month's suicide terrorist attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul echo India's long-held conviction that Pakistan is backing terrorism in the region...
...report by researchers at University of Wisconsin and University of California, Berkeley, aims to overturn the long-held belief that girls aren't as good at math as boys. According to new data, the researchers say, that gender gap has become a myth - a finding they hope will help shift the very real gender gap in math, science and technology professions, which are currently dominated...
...Jerusalem Coming Home Israel and Hizballah agreed to a prisoner-exchange deal in which Israel will release a long-held Lebanese terrorist, Samir Kuntar, for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, whose capture in July 2006 triggered the month-long war between Israel and Hizballah that summer. Hizballah captured the soldiers with the intention of using them as bargaining chips for Kuntar's release and is citing the deal as proof of the group's regional influence. Israel is still trying to negotiate with Hamas to win back Gilad Shalit, who is believed...