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...FDIC also has a public-policy mission with IndyMac, which had made many risky mortgages. Many of those loans went to borrowers in California, where home prices have fallen sharply. The FDIC tried to show it could keep many of those borrowers in their homes and still turn the bank around. In all, IndyMac modified the loans of more than 10,000 of its borrowers in less than eight months, in many cases eliminating the chance that those borrowers would face foreclosure. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...complications, that may dog her for years to come. After state and insurance-company bureaucracies were less than helpful, the ACS and its call center proved to be a valued ally. "They were much more compassionate," Wilhite says. "They just had much more information about where I could turn next...
...That line of thinking was exactly what Kenneth Starr, the former Whitewater independent counsel who is now dean of Pepperdine Law School, had in mind when it was his turn to argue against overturning Prop. 8. Starr is serving as counsel to supporters of traditional marriage who received permission to argue on the initiative's behalf when it became clear that Attorney General Jerry Brown would most likely support efforts to strike down Prop. 8. "The issue before this iconic court has to do with the sovereignty of the people of California," Starr said. "We have heard a lot about...
...problem. The policy might be described as comprehensive diplomacy accompanied by lots of money. The diplomatic task is to nudge India and Pakistan, who nearly came to an agreement in their eternal Kashmir dispute in 2007, toward a lessening of tensions in the hope that the Pakistani army will turn to the struggle against al-Qaeda and the Taliban...
...groups, which include Oxfam, CARE International and the Dutch and French branches of Doctors Without Borders, have been told to turn over bank account information and lists of their assets. Vanessa van Schoor, Sudan operational manager for MSF Holland, said government agents had begun seizing computers and scanners at the group's offices...