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...fact, most studies of what happens after loans are modified show that a big percentage wind up in default anyway. In one such study, the ratings agency Moody's looked at a group of subprime adjustable-rate mortgages modified in the first half of 2007. It found that by March 2008, only a third were either still current or had been fully paid...
...March 18 in Philadelphia, Obama attempted to defend his relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, by talking about another complicated relationship: "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe...
...police are only lightly armed. They carry AK-47s, and each truck is mounted with a Russian light machine gun. In Bala Beluk, Khodaydad's forces routinely face insurgents armed with an arsenal of mortars, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, armor piercing rounds and increasingly sophisticated Improvised Explosive Devices. Between March 2007 and March 2008 police casualties hit 1119, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Afghan National Army deaths, by contrast, were 280. In the six months since March, another 720 police have died. "Our police have changed to a combat force," says Munir Mohammad Mangal, the deputy minister...
...pilot program that offered the New York Times in dining halls with support form the UC, House Committees, and Harvard University Dining Services, ended due to a dearth of funding. An earlier trial period failed to muster enough UC support for permanent financing when legislation was introduced in March 2007. The Crimson took part in the the fall 2007 pilot, benefiting financially from a distribution contract. Usui said USA Today’s program is particularly attractive because the company would run a four-week trial that would include student surveys to gauge interest. With that data, Usui said...
...sedate, and both were played with grace and beautiful phrasing. There was particularly good communication between the wind chorale theme and the pizzicato accompaniment of the strings, which gave a sense of dance to the entire movement. The third movement, a joyous “Nutcracker”-esque march, is the emotional highlight of the symphony. Although the brass became a little overpowering, the movement ended so strongly that the crowd burst into premature applause. After a short smile from Levine to inform the audience of their mistake, the orchestra began the fourth movement, which...