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...report, issued by Washington's Center for Public Integrity, found that at least 21 of the top 25 firms taking part in the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, were heavily involved in the frenzied lending that led to the subprime blowup. The firms originated or serviced subprime loans, or both. (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...been told, many CIA employees believed this was an accident waiting to happen. They knew from years of experience that it would be the CIA and nobody else in Washington who would pay the price. A CIA officer who left the agency in 2004 wrote to me this week: "I knew the Agency crazies and their contractors would eventually pay legally or politically for torture. Many folks were talking about it. But management did nothing. The right wing nuts did not make us proud, and hid behind Cheney authorities to conduct crimes which added nothing and probably were counter-productive...
Kennedy's death does seem to have brought about a temporary cease-fire, with at least one group that opposes the bill suspending its television advertising. But when Congress returns to Washington in September, few doubt that the war will resume with even greater force in the wake of an August recess that has seen dozens of town-hall meetings disrupted by raucous protests...
...then he quoted his brother's message, to all those he had sought to lead: "Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not." Then a funeral train carried his body to Washington; inside was a traveling Irish wake, with family and friends assuring one another that life goes on, telling stories, singing, laughing. Outside, the tracks and fields and sidewalks were lined with many thousands of people waiting to say goodbye. It was dark by the time the assembly reached Arlington; the pallbearers seemed lost, unsure where...
During Benedict's 2008 trip to the U.S., there was some heated debate - with conflicting photographs and eyewitness accounts - about whether Kennedy took Holy Communion at the papal Mass at Nationals Stadium in Washington, with conservatives insisting that the Pope says the rite should be denied to prochoice politicians. With this in mind, Church observers are keen to see if Boston's Archbishop Cardinal Sean O'Malley will preside over Kennedy's funeral. Some conservatives already see the fact that the rites are not being held in a cathedral (but rather at the Senator's favorite church) as significant. (UPDATE...