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...gathered for the city's first free No Homeowner Left Behind seminar, sponsored in part by the city and the local newspaper, the Modesto Bee. Worried residents gathered to spend their Saturday talking to lenders about how they can avoid losing their own homes. "I'm stressed and in turmoil and have butterflies in my stomach," says P.J. Scruggs, who says she is two months behind in paying her mortgage. She is afraid she will lose the home that has been in her family for 35 years. "It's scary - this is just too rampant in the Valley...
...Ambac Financial Group Inc., have been hit the hardest as they scramble to raise capital to cover possible defaults and to stave off a downgrade from the ratings agencies. It was this group's foray out of its traditional municipal bonds and into mortgage-backed securities that caused the turmoil. A rating downgrade of the monoline companies could be devastating for banks and others who bought insurance protection from them to cover their corporate bond exposure...
...peace. “I certainly felt I was the lone wolf,” she said. “Nobody likes to be seen as soft on terrorism, soft on the bad guys.” For the Harvard academics who predicted the current turmoil in Iraq, the lack of accountability for the war’s intellectual supporters can be frustrating. No policy expert has a perfect track record, said Belfer Center expert Stephen M. Walt, who was one of 36 American political scientists to sign an advertisement in The New York Times in September 2002 opposing...
Illinois Senator Barack Obama easily captured a majority of Mississippi's 33 Democratic delegates Tuesday as his one-on-one battle with Hillary Clinton race verged once again on deeper racial turmoil. With 90% of all precincts reporting, Obama led Clinton in Misissippi by a margin of nearly three...
...explore this dynamic in ways that make the sacrifice seem worthwhile. The film’s finest achievement, however, is in convincing the viewer to fall in love with Anne, just as Henry VIII does. Ironically, it does so by oscillating between Anne’s ugly psychological turmoil and her beautiful, calculated, eloquent exterior. In fact, it is in the moments that Anne herself becomes “the other Boleyn girl”—isolated, vulnerable, and afraid—that the film feels closest to history rather than fiction. —Staff writer Jenny...