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...reason it has proved so hard to help homeowners is that today's mortgages are no longer simply held by a local bank; they have been sold to Wall Street, where they were cut up and repackaged into thousands of bonds sold to investors. The current global credit crisis originates from the moment when subprime borrowers starting having trouble making their mortgage payments, which had been funneled into interest payments to bond holders...
...what the U.S. told us to do, and got this" (he pointed at beggars crawling outside a five-star hotel). "Now we go to China and all we see is how far ahead of us they've come." Once wary of directly challenging the West, nations like China no longer are shy about exporting their model. Beijing runs training programs for thousands of government officials from around the developing world, programs that highlight how China is getting rich...
...battle against cancer has turned into a study of greed. I am 60, and I have been watching family members die from cancer all my life, among them nonsmokers with lung cancer. I believe scientists could find a cure, but if they did, how many people would no longer be needed? Cancer has become big, big business. S. Michael Long, Levittown...
...during the playing of La Marseillaise, traditional before an international match, could be measured by the outpouring of rage from scandalized French politicians. They were falling over one another to express outrage and find effective sanctions against those responsible, and deterrence against any recurrence. Ironically, it took the politicians longer to give coherent expression to their anger over the greed-driven global financial crisis than it did to excoriate some rambunctious soccer fans...
...just stop organizing these kinds of matches so these kinds of people will be deprived their team," added secretary of state for sports Bernard Laporte, former coach of France's national rugby team that has also been the target of some Bronx cheering lately. "We can no longer tolerate French players being [booed] incessantly, or the Marseillaise being [jeered...