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...round." It's safe to say that a resemblance to India's icon of peaceable nationalism isn't immediately obvious. The link turns out to be distributism, a philosophy opposed to big government and big corporations alike and a formative influence for both men, according to Griffin. "[Distributism] took Gandhi in a very similar direction - mutatis mutandis obviously," he says. "I'm not going to wear a loincloth, you'll be pleased to hear...
...Jersey TAKE THAT, TONY SOPRANO In a state long tainted by graft, New Jersey's latest scandal may top them all. After a 10-year probe reaching from Hoboken to Israel, federal agents slapped 44 people with criminal charges. The allegations read like a movie script: assemblymen and mayors took bribes in diners and parking lots; rabbis laundered millions through Jewish charities; a man tried to sell a kidney to an FBI informant. The fallout has been equally cinematic: the mayor of Secaucus resigned July 28, and the same day, another accused official was found dead in suspicious circumstances...
...people simply looking for a place to live, though, deals abound. The house that the Robertses finally bought - with three bedrooms, granite countertops and textured walls - had been listed at $315,000 before its owners fell into foreclosure and the bank took over. The Robertses paid $169,000. "We never thought we'd be able to have such a nice house," says Jillian happily...
After 35 years in the mortgage industry, Tom Birch took a job as a housing counselor at Boise's Neighborhood Housing Services this past winter. He spends his days meeting with people who can no longer afford their mortgage payments. It has been tough going. More than most, Birch appreciates that mortgage companies were not prepared to handle the number of cases they have seen. He also understands, again probably more than most, that foreclosure is, in certain circumstances, the right outcome...
...took a 7-year-old to tell us what it was. We thought it was just some type of new tagger.' JEFF SUTTER, captain of the Wauwatosa, Wis., police department, after a Harry Potter fan vandalized 80 local traffic signs to make them read stop voldemort...