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...Washington Extended Tours Continue Owing to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Army announced it will continue involuntary extensions of combat duty, also known as stop-loss, through 2009. Since 2002, more than 130,000 soldiers have been affected by this policy, which on average means spending an extra seven months in war zones...
Peak months for Army stop-loss extensions...
...rescue speculators. FDIC chief Sheila Bair has been pushing to use new loan-guarantee authority passed under the $700 billion banking bailout to adjust troubled homeowner mortgages. The plan would provide $50 billion from the government to be tapped as insurance for banks willing to adjust mortgages in a loss-sharing agreement. The FDIC would guarantee any losses on loans readjusted for homeowners who can show a 38% debt-to-income ratio, similar to what the FDIC worked out for the 60,000-odd bad loans it ate when it closed IndyMac bank...
...decline in the membership on voter lists since August 1 of this year that cannot be explained by deaths and emigration alone. Colorado, for instance, which has had not only a number of highly visible registration drives but a net increase in population, has shown a net loss of 100,000 voters since 2004. A report from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law pointed out a case where a Mississippi voting official accidentally erased the records of ten thousand voters from her home computer. Whether political motivation was involved or not is difficult...
...sophomores starting, especially on the offensive line, which is highly unusual in this league.”Plagued by injuries all season, an inexperienced Big Green squad saw its star wide receiver, sophomore Tim McManus fill in as the starting quarterback in last week’s 21-13 loss to Columbia. Even more distressing was the fact that kicker and true freshman Foley Schmidt provided the majority of Dartmouth’s scoring offense. Coming into the game, Dartmouth ranks last in the league in just about every category, including rushing offense (63.8 ypg), total offense...