Word: short
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Four months ago, the city of West Palm Beach opened its foreclosure assistance center, a one-stop shop where staffers assist besieged homeowners by calling lenders, renegotiating loans and arranging for short-sales - that is, the bank-approved sale of a house at a price below its outstanding mortgage. The center will even help cover late mortgage payments up to $10,000. Since April, the center has received more than 5,000 phone calls or visits for help; so far, 171 homes have been saved from foreclosure, and others have received various forms of help. The county is desperate...
...hope to the Palestinians, who were afforded just an hour of the 36 hours that he spent in Israel during his overseas trip. Even his speech in Berlin - in which he said, "The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another" - fell short. Obama's true commitment to eliminating the walls that stand between nations, races and religions remains to be proved. Saber Ahmed Jazbhay, Durban, South Africa...
...statehood as the basis for admission. But for organizations like the World Trade Organization, which can take in countries under the name of a separate customs territory, we did exactly that. We were admitted in 2002 with a very awkward name: Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan. Chinese Taipei for short. This is a new model. We are trying to get into the World Health Assembly [of the World Health Organization]. The first obstacle is the name we are going to use. As with the WTO, we will not use Taiwan or Republic of China. We will be flexible on names...
...stadium, was smothered by security staff after trying to unveil a banned Tibetan flag she and a friend had snuck past the guards. They hauled her out of the arena as some members of the crowd jeered and chanted for her to leave - her dissident act cut short before it even started. Another man wearing an anti-Olympics t-shirt was barred from even entering the venue, while a human rights protester briefly held up a sign he had smuggled through in his underpants...
...dozen Chinese gathered around to watch. One woman with a Chinese flag painted on her cheek giggled with her friend as Yoko spoke. A short while later, one man called Yoko a "hoodlum," while another said loudly that the assembled journalists were "shameless." The security guards bundled off the demonstrators to a small office. A British television reporter, John Ray of Independent Television News, was also taken away in a police van. Ray says the police have accused him of trying to unfurl a Tibetan flag, which he denies. Ray held his press pass out the window...