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...first Republican President. It was remarkable, considering that Illinois rarely receives serious attention from national Republicans. George H.W. Bush was the last Republican presidential candidate to carry Illinois, in 1988. In recent years, Illinois' Republican Party has been so neutered that, in 2004, it imported Alan Keyes from Maryland to compete against Barack Obama for a U.S. Senate seat. So Steele's visit demonstrates a key aspect of his strategy for reviving the party: planting the party's flag in states beyond the South long ago dismissed by the GOP, while maintaining strongholds like DuPage...
...still stands as one of the 20th Century's greatest feats of engineering: over a decade, vast battalions of workers braved illness and misadventure to carve a 50-mile long channel through the Panamanian isthmus to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But for University of Maryland history professor Julie Greene, the project was about more than miles dug or dirt shifted. "We have long perceived the canal as involving conquest over nature, and there's some truth in that. But it also involved conquest over the tens of thousands of men and women in the Canal Zone...
Another final score: Maryland...
...Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Though he was a new faculty member at Yale Law School, Sullivan received the award for outstanding teaching in his first year. Currently, he directs the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute. Robinson, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, was named one of Ebony Magazine’s 30 young African American leaders of the future in 1997. She presently serves as CEO of The Jamestown Project, a national think-tank compromised primarily of minorities and women that focuses on democracy. The couple—both HLS graduates who also...
...even such a law combined with financial incentives for modification won't guarantee that servicers will do what it takes to avoid foreclosure in the long run. Over the past few months, as loan defaults have continued to rise, the Maryland Office of Financial Regulation has noticed an increase in servicers crafting modifications with lower monthly payments. That's a good sign - unless, perhaps, those lower payments come with a balloon payment further down the road, as White has often noticed in the loans he's studied...