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...controversial visit of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's leader-in-exile, to Taiwan next week. Ma has been facing his lowest approval ratings - around 20% - since he took office more than a year ago. The public has been angry with his lack of strong leadership and with the slow pace of relief efforts since Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan on Aug. 8, bringing the worst floods in 50 years and leaving at least 568 dead or missing and more than 7,000 homeless...
...trees too tall for them with a face-saving manner of climbing down," says Yossi Mekelberg, an associate fellow at the British think tank Chatham House and program director of international relations at Regents College in London. "That climbdown requires that small, careful steps be taken at a consistent pace. Today we're talking about settlement freezes, which is nothing compared to questions like Jerusalem, border placement or the fate of refugees. But you have to start somewhere." (Read "The Six Issues That Divide Bibi from Barack...
Kevin A. McCluskey '76, Harvard's senior director of community relations for Boston, reminded the community members during the meeting that University President Drew G. Faust had made clear earlier this year that the pace at which Harvard expands has slowed in light of the turbulent economic climate...
...many banks have balked at loan modifications in spite of MHA: they'd rather roll the dice with another owner since studies show many modified mortgages still go south, just delaying the inevitable. But in cases like Miami Gardens, says Milligan's lawyer, Miami real estate attorney Rashmi Airan-Pace, lenders need to realize that as foreclosures mount and infect neighborhoods, their chances of auctioning those houses dim significantly. "Given what fair market value of these homes has become today," Airan-Pace says, "they especially need to change their mind-set about reducing principal," which she complains...
...Still, advocates like Airan-Pace say the banks, perhaps because of Geithner's grousing or because they've gotten up to speed on MHA's procedures, have stepped up their modification activity in recent weeks. That's giving them hope that MHA perhaps has a future after all. "This month we've actually been raking them in," says Airan-Pace, who's now confident that she'll be able to work something out for Milligan...