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...altered the core concept behind the website, essentially condensing all of its features, including posts between friends, into a constant stream of Twitter-esque news snippets. This time, there was no “trial” period, but only a short notice about a week before the changes took effect...
Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren took time away from trying to save the U.S. economy earlier this week to sit down with Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart
...likely to be advice Perry will heed. He is already the longest serving governor in Texas history - as lieutenant governor, he took over for President-elect George W. Bush in December 2000. That has given him unparalleled influence over state government, where much of the governor's power resides in appointments to boards and commissions. Masset believes that more of that kind of centralization of power "will lead to Washington-style corruption. We need new people with new ideas. We need new appointees and new blood...
...into adjustable-rate loans that turned out to be financial time bombs. But according to the Justice Department, prosecutions of cases like those actually dropped between 2000 and 2007. Because so many law enforcement resources were thrown at terrorism during the Bush Administration, federal real estate fraud cases often took a back seat. Last year, even as the crisis became apparent, the Bush Justice Department still rejected a congressional recommendation to create a mortgage fraud task force...
...high mortgage interest rate lowered so he could continue making house payments. "I was so happy, I was sure they would take care of it," says Brown, a widower who has since lost his house and is living with a friend. "They didn't do anything, and they took all my money." (No one answers the phone at Keep Your Property, and TIME's attempts to reach the owners, William Colon and Carlos Hernandez, were unsuccessful...