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...Obama Administration is gearing up to play hardball with mortgage companies that only temporarily lower struggling homeowners' monthly payments. But as the drive to make more loan modifications permanent kicks off, there's a weightier question to ask: Can the government's $50 billion foreclosure-prevention initiative deal with the crisis as it now exists...
...departments of Treasury and Housing and Urban Development announced that they would no longer take kindly to mortgage firms that don't make modifications lasting. Teams of officials are headed to the nation's largest lenders for a closer look at what's going on, and starting in December public progress reports will include the number of loans being converted to permanent status - an attempt to shame the firms into quicker action. Monetary penalties could follow...
...there harm done in the government's leaning on mortgage companies to make trial modifications permanent? Probably not. But there are plenty of other foreclosure-related problems out there that could use some attention...
First and foremost, we are certainly confident in Capuano on the issues. However, given the fact that his politics do little to differentiate him from his Democratic rivals, it is his personal attributes that make him stand out most to us. Specifically, we are impressed with Capuano’s past as a politician who gets things done. Since learning politics in rough-and-tumble Somerville—where he served as the city’s mayor—he has represented Massachusetts’s Eighth Congressional District, which includes Harvard, for over a decade...
...choice to teach science fiction was a natural one. “When anyone in the humanities is deciding what to teach,” Burt says, “we ask ourselves: what do we like? What is worth studying? What is important to make available and isn’t already being covered in courses that others are teaching?” For Burt, science fiction literature fits the bill. “A number of Harvard students seem to agree,” he notes...