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...summer, the Administration's plan to help worthy mortgage holders reduce their monthly payments should show early signs of slowing the year-long acceleration of foreclosure rates. If unemployment and desperation among people with homes worth less than their mortgages leads a greater and greater number of mortgage holders to send their keys back to their lenders, the first, and most important step the government has taken to reverse the collapse of housing will become a disheartening symbol that the Administration and Congress have not solved a big part of the cause of the recession...
...this year in his office, Nesson moves quickly, from his childhood, to his relationship with the Internet and computers (in the 1980s, fiddling around with an early personal computer, he fashioned a virtual poker program that he was later able to sell for enough money to buy himself a summer home.) For nearly 45 minutes, he discusses Jamaica—a country that he became fascinated with after visiting for the first time in the 1990s. They’re answers he’s given several times, but there’s a freshness to them, a certain...
Cabot House Allston-Burr Resident Dean Mya M. Mangawang will step down from her post this summer following a tenure that many students have characterized as polarizing...
...watchers as further evidence of Moscow's continued suppression of dissent at a time when the domestic popularity of President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has slipped thanks to the economic crisis, and amid international fears of growing Russian militarism after its successful war against Georgia last summer. (See TIME's special package on the Russia-Georgia...
News of the latest incident came not long after NATO announced a significant reduction in conflict-related civilians deaths over the first quarter of this year versus the same period in 2007. Gen. Richard Blanchette, the coaltion spokesman, said this was a function of stricter protocols. Since last summer, he explained, the decision-making process down the chain of command has been "reviewed numerous times" to minimize risk to civilians, resulting in more operations cancelled. "But," he pointed out, "you never hear news reports of an airstrike not taking place...