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...bigger question looming over the FHA, though, is this: At what point does a federal housing agency start to pull back and force private players to resume responsibility for the loans they make? The FHA was founded in 1934 as a way to extend the prospect of homeownership to people who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it. The agency's low down-payment requirement - itself the subject of some controversy - is designed to help deserving if underqualified people get a foothold in property ownership. The FHA was never meant to be the primary way America finances its home...
Last April, we found out that the acceptance rate for the class of 2013 was about 7 percent. That’s a number to make even some of us upperclassmen feel insecure. (Back in our day, we were admitted at the embarrassingly bloated rate of about 9 percent. Good thing we managed to slip in when we could.) These days, we wonder, could there be a statistically more impossible dream than getting into Harvard...
...even if the government can make a strong case without the tainted evidence, Mohammed's treatment could cause problems. It's possible - though not likely - that a court could rule that the government doesn't have the right to prosecute someone who has been severely abused in custody. (Previously, suspects have been released even when their abuse didn't prejudice evidence against them, but there's no clear precedent for terrorism cases.) Other issues likely to be raised by the defense, says Dratel, are finding a jury that can be considered impartial, especially blocks from the World Trade Center site...
...Some Republicans and family members of the victims argue that the spectacle of trying Mohammed in federal court, instead of trying him before military commissions or simply holding the suspects indefinitely, risks endangering New Yorkers, exposing classified material and giving the plotters a platform to make themselves martyrs. "These terrorists planned and executed the mass murder of thousands of innocent Americans," Senator John Cornyn of Texas said Friday. "Treating them like common criminals is unconscionable...
Regardless, she said, there will likely be negative reaction in the Muslim world. It's delicate, she said. "The President's going to have to make clear that it's not intended to be in any fashion disrespectful of the act of worship...