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...problems Bonney showed me apply across the board. First, commercial mortgages are about to hit a refinancing wall. Deutsche Bank's Parkus estimates that more than 65% of the loans that have been packaged into commercial mortgage backed securities won't qualify for refinancing when they come due. Second, banks are already facing painful choices about what to do with short-term land and construction loans that will never be paid off in full. Finally, the vulture investors who usually swoop in and refire markets after a bust are still hanging back...
Residents were urged to find alternative sources of drinking water as authorities tried to stop 40,000 gal. (almost 151,500 L) of leaked diesel fuel from contaminating a stretch of the Yellow River--China's second longest and a source of fresh water for millions. Some 700 workers were reportedly mobilized to control the spill, which was not made public for several days...
...rare for a President to give the entire U.S. intelligence community a public dressing-down. Barack Obama just did it twice in a single week. If he seemed annoyed in his first response to the attempted Christmas Day bombing, he was practically seething in his second. "The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot ... but our intelligence community failed to connect those dots," Obama said on Jan. 5, after a 90-minute review with his national-security team...
Coming into Saturday’s game, the Harvard women’s hockey team felt that it had something to prove. After a last-second goal forced the Crimson to settle for a tie with Cornell on Friday night, Harvard wasn’t about to let that happen again...
...minutes into the period, the Crimson got on the scoreboard. Co-captain Kathryn Farni fed a pass to junior Liza Ryabkina, who put a shot on goal. Although Colgate goalie Lisa Plenderleith stopped the initial shot, Ryabkina picked up her own rebound, skated around the net, and lifted her second shot into the high left corner...