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...collecting payments--that's not happening. "Servicers don't have the right incentives," says Christopher Mayer, professor of real estate at Columbia University's Business School. Cutting them a check in return for a modification of the loan, or trumpeting their legal authority to do so, is meant to prime the mortgage-rewriting pump, as is letting bankruptcy judges revise mortgages...
...Grand Theft Auto IV wasn't even the most commercial entertainment option on the bill. As Dan Houser, one of the prime movers behind the Grand Theft Auto series, points out, the game opened opposite Speed Racer and Iron Man. "I thought that was an interesting moment," says Houser, an affable, shaved-headed Londoner who talks so quickly that he's almost untranscribable. "You have a video game about an immigrant discovering himself and losing himself in America - and that's the video game - and then the movies are about a superhero in a metal suit and a car based...
...place, the deadliest wildfires in Australia's history have killed at least 181 people and destroyed more than 750 homes. Some 1,100 sq. mi. (2,850 sq km) have burned. Authorities say at least one of the fires, which began near Melbourne on Feb. 7, was arson. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called the act "mass murder...
...Zimbabwe Unity at Last? Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in on Feb. 11 as the country's new Prime Minister, after nearly 11 months of political violence and stalled negotiations with controversial leader Robert Mugabe, who refused to step down as President despite losing the March 29 presidential election to Tsvangirai. More than 100 members of Tsvangirai's political party, however, remain in police custody...
...entered, however, is markedly different from where it has been before. The concept of the American Dream is not only in the midst of a reevaluation, the morality of aspects of that Dream is in question. If, in coming years, the old unbridled pursuit of happiness (corporate greed, sub-prime mortgages) comes to be synonymous with a decaying economy and an injured American spirit, might this threaten the boundless optimism to which Pepsi has tied itself? Will the benefits of identifying the Pepsi brand so closely with Obama’s clarion call for a new era of hope carry...