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...have enough money for a down payment so that they might "monetize" the tax credit and get the cash up front. Down-payment assistance is considered by many to have contributed to the crisis because it helped people buy homes they couldn't really afford. Anyone who doesn't understand that it's a bad idea to push people into buying houses when they're not ready to hasn't been paying attention for the past two years. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
Edward Kennedy died at Chappaquiddick, along with Mary Jo Kopechne. It's hard to understand how a major figure like Ted could emerge from such a personal disaster, give such a thoroughly unconvincing explanation, and yet continue to pitch for high office. In the U.K. he'd have been finished, no matter how personable he and his brothers might have been. Robert F. Birkett, DRINKSTONE GREEN, ENGLAND...
...feel about the way you were shown in the Sacha Baron Cohen film Brüno? -Matthew Thacker, Bowling Green, Ohio I don't feel good about it because I was the subject of a trick, and nobody likes to be tricked. I understand they're not making a tremendous amount of money off this movie, so maybe the American people aren't as cynical as they assumed. (Watch the conversation with Ron Paul...
...passed, nations like Japan are pledging deep emission cuts and hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent on green stimulus for recovering economies. But the world is late - and time is short. "Our political method has so far failed to grapple with reality," says McKibben. "We have to understand that the negotiations aren't just between the U.S., the E.U. and China. We're trying to negotiate with chemistry and physics - and they don't negotiate...
...belief system of the people of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's problems do not have a military solution, but rather it needs a humanitarian solution and we know ways around to do that because we live in one area and we have the cultural and historical ties. We know each other, understand each other, each other's cultures and ways of life and traditions. In the past 100 years, no foreign military force has been able to leave Afghanistan victoriously. If the US decision makers were fully aware of the extent of this history they would have revised their policies...