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...with difficulty. Each state has its own laws about how the three steps of foreclosure--default notice, court judgment and sheriff's sale--are made public, and those rules weren't necessarily written with data aggregation in mind. This summer, Dallas County, Texas, started posting records online, but before that, the only way to get information on foreclosures had been to march down to the courthouse and scan the corkboard where filings were posted. Even that was hit-or-miss--people often ripped down the paper postings instead of jotting down the addresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Hunters | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...creation lends depth to a story that might otherwise be nothing more than a frivolous laugh.Despite calling itself a “Tragedee,” Cappellani’s novel has all the trappings of a classic comedy. Set in the heart of a Sicilian summer, the novel is divided into three “acts” and focuses primarily on two blossoming romances—one between the middle-aged mafioso Alfio Turrisi and Betty, the daughter of his rival, and the other between theater director Tino Cagnotto and his paramour Bobo, an aspiring young actor. Both...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns | Title: All Ends Well in ‘Tragedee’ | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...them, policies espousing only environmentalism or economic development and not both are self-defeating. The Brazilians continue to struggle with deforestation, as illegal logging clears room for cattle grazing, but solutions are being created to allow for the use of the Amazon’s bounty without destruction. This summer the government began the profitable and heroic production of condoms from rubber tree plants. Hydroelectric dams are also being built and activities which do not produce smoke are being subsidized, like bee-keeping, fish-farming, and forest management...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Captain Planet Economics | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...intrigues do resemble a higher-stakes version of our own party politics. What makes this case pertinent is that those prosecuting the group have been accused of representing the pro-Islam government, the ruling AK Party, in revenge for a failed court attempt to ban the party this summer for undermining Turkey’s secular government system. For years, secular Turks have battled more Islamic Turks over the direction of their country. The result of this case and any cases that follow could very well dictate the long-term direction of the Turkish state. With a large military...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Hussein on Trial | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...here. George Hayward ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, is a government concentrator in Currier House. He is Political Action Chair of the Black Students Association and was a Harvard Institute of Politics Director’s Intern at Barack Obama’s Senate Office this summer...

Author: By George Hayward | Title: Presidentiality | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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