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...peace process is stalled and may be dead even now. The Peres plan may offer the final chance to reach a pragmatic accord. Americans owe the Foreign Minister support in this difficult task...
...Department of Education reports that approximately $6 billion in student loans are currently in default, including $4 billion in the popular Guaranteed Student Loan program and $2 billion in Federally Insured Student Loans and Perkins Loans. More than one million graduates owe money to their national government for money they borrowed on the understanding that they would pay it back...
Legislators, and especially the current Administration, have lived dangerously beyond their means--to the point where the national government will spend more than $160 billion more than it will take in next year and will owe several trillion dollars to its debtors...
...family values and emphasize education. Sociologist William Liu, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, argues that immigrants from Asian countries with the strongest Confucian influence - Japan, Korea, China and Viet Nam - perform best. "The Confucian ethic," he says, "drives people to work, excel and repay the debt they owe their parents." By comparison, San Diego's Rumbaut points out, Laotians and Cambodians, who do somewhat less well, have a gentler, Buddhist approach to life...
...case: John Connally, 70, former Treasury Secretary, three-term Texas Governor and onetime presidential candidate. Connally applied under Chapter 11 for personal bankruptcy protection and under Chapter 7 to liquidate the failed real estate business he owned with Partner Ben Barnes, a former Lieutenant Governor. Between them, they owe an estimated $170 million...