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...been, the soft economy was suffocating. Having pledged his home equity as collateral, now he was forced to sell his demolition equipment at a loss. He fell behind on his mortgage payments of $1,647 per month. His son had to leave college in Virginia to attend a school near home. His mother passed away...
...always managed to make ends meet," Stevens said over breakfast at a burned-toast diner near her home in Independence, Mo. "I was working day and night, but that's what happens in this country if you're not educated. Anyway, I'm not afraid of hard work...
...still found the closing disheartening. “It’s a sign of the economic crisis, and in this time jobs are lost and ideas are gone,” Levy said. The “Life is Good” brand, which is now worth nearly $120 million, took off after brothers Bert and John Jacobs began selling handmade t-shirts bearing the Jake logo at a Cambridge street fair in 1994. Everything’s Jake rents from Trinity Property, which also owns the rest of The Garage, the 50 Church St. building, the Harvard Square...
Last year, a swarm of yellow-clad demonstrators massed in Bangkok, taking over the international airport and virtually paralyzing the Thai capital for a week. Today, the color of protest is red. As bigwigs from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) began gathering at a seaside resort near Bangkok on Feb. 26 for an annual summit, thousands of anti-government protesters wearing crimson shirts congregated at the Thai Prime Minister's office, demanding that Abhisit Vejjajiva hold elections soon. Thursday marked their third day of protest, and the red-hued demonstrators vowed not to cease until their demands...
Three hours before he died, Shepiyev's bodyguard was killed. And in a separate case, but on the same day, Georgian businessman Kakha Kalandarishvili was gunned down when walking his dog in northwestern Moscow. Russian news agencies reported that the dog would not let police near the body for two hours. (See pictures of Putin's patriotic youth camp...