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Last week, Sheriff Tom Dart of Cook County, Illinois issued a press release that quickly became news across the country; he was suspending all foreclosure evictions in the area because banks weren't notifiying tenants about their landlord's problems. "These mortgage companies only see pieces of paper, not people, and don't care who's in the building," Dart said in the release. "We're just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today." The Illinois Bankers Association quickly fired back with its own public statement, calling Dart's move "vigilantism." But supporters have been just as vocal...
...going to tell you what they want you to hear," O'Hare said. And back on the driveway, Tammy Pyle's husband Larry echoed the sentiment. "It's all special interests now," he said. Larry and Tammy were the two Republicans in the group, but even they weren't buying the McCain message. "Whoever gets in, it's not going to change," Tammy said. "So for me, the most important issue is taxes. I just don't want to pay more taxes...
Movie as Maze The explosive events of Sept. 11 made Muslim nations a playground for spies, as Berlin was during the Cold War. But the new boom market was different; KGB agents weren't likely to blow themselves up to make a political point, and the middle-class whites in the CIA couldn't easily pass for Arabs to infiltrate an al-Qaeda cell. Ferris makes use of locals to sleuth out information. But he and Hoffman have a bigger, wilder plan. The notion is to plant incriminating data on a plausible corpse and create a fictional...
...brain, of course, is not all amygdala, and there are higher regions that can talk sense to the lower ones. Phelps cites studies showing that when blacks and whites are flashed pictures of faces from the other race so quickly that the subjects weren't consciously aware of seeing them, their amygdalae reacted predictably. When the images were flashed more slowly so that subjects could process them consciously, the anterior cingulate cortex and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex--regions that temper automatic responses--kicked...
...Even before the economic crisis, things weren't looking exactly rosy for House Republicans. A whopping 29 of them retired this year, leaving an uncomfortable number of swing seats open to Democratic challenge (without all those retiring members, who were more inclined to vote yes on the bill, it would have been even more soundly defeated). Indeed, five GOP seats are already leaning Democratic and another 19 are toss-ups, according to the Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races. And House Republicans trail Democrats by more than $40 million in campaign cash-on-hand...