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...convenience that allowed him ready access to his Pentagon files and facilitated work with the Library of Congress to archive his personal papers. It also kept him near friends and former associates and afforded a close sidelines view of the capital's political scene, although as the Bush administration ran out its term, he purposefully maintained a low profile, giving few public speeches or media interviews and spending large chunks of his time at two other homes outside Washington - the old manor in St. Michaels, Maryland, and the farm in Taos, New Mexico...
...what to do with the mortgage insurers by early next year. Fannie and Freddie, which guarantee to pay lenders and investors in the event that a borrower defaults, were set up by Congress. But while they were run as private companies, it was long understood that if the companies ran into trouble, the government would step in to save them, which is exactly what happened. (Read "Will President Obama's New Housing Plan Work...
...husband and I ran into the street. It was raining debris," she said in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. "My first instinct was that a plane went down. Debris was raining down like it was 9-11. I have house insulation in my parking...
...night, Aysar Jaber listens to her 11-year-old son scream in his sleep in the family's Phoenix apartment, plagued by nightmares about violence in his native Iraq. Jaber has nightmares of her own. Job applications have gone unanswered. Government assistance ran out months ago. Her husband found work washing dishes, but it's not enough. Each month, she pays $828 in rent for their two-bedroom apartment, then decides whether the family has money left over for soap. Nine months after her family resettled as refugees, Jaber, 41, said she worries constantly about eviction...
...When Mousavi was Prime Minister, he oversaw an office that ran operatives abroad, from Lebanon to Kuwait to Iraq. This was the heyday of Khomeini's theocratic vision, when Iran thought it really could export its revolution across the Middle East, providing money and arms to anyone who claimed he could upend the old order. Mousavi was not only swept up into this delusion but also actively pursued...