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...Obama Administration is gearing up to play hardball with mortgage companies that only temporarily lower struggling homeowners' monthly payments. But as the drive to make more loan modifications permanent kicks off, there's a weightier question to ask: Can the government's $50 billion foreclosure-prevention initiative deal with the crisis as it now exists...
...think our kids are playing with a tremendous amount of confidence and I think they have the right to play that way based on what they’ve been able to do thus far,” said Amaker after Wednesday’s victory over Rice. “We’ve played a tremendous schedule thus far. It only gets incredibly tougher for us from this point forward...
Caplan, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Yiddish Literature, and Raker are attempting to bring this traditional play to life in a modern context. “What feels ‘modern’ about our interpretation of ‘Shulamis’ is simply that we’re not striving to reproduce a 19th century operetta as it was performed in the 1880s,” Caplan writes in an email. “We opted to bring ‘Shulamis’ into a 21st century theatrical framework.” Among other changes...
Though this game presents a challenge for Harvard, the team is focusing more on the long-term goal of perfecting its play rather than solely beating Minnesota...
...political analyst at the Carnegie Center in Moscow, says that at this stage, the government is more likely to tighten security around Russia's infrastructure and other vulnerable targets. But if Umarov's terrorist campaign continues, the exiled Musayev fears a ruthless response from Putin's government. "This could play right into the Kremlin's hands," he says. "It could give them an excuse to retaliate against the regular citizens in Chechnya who sympathize with the resistance, to bring new troops there, to tighten the screws just as they've always done when our leaders take responsibility for these crimes...