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...government's program to promote homeownership that permitted all of the excesses that occurred over the years. People who should never have had a mortgage were induced to buy a home when they couldn't pay for it. And as a result, those are the ones whose homes are being foreclosed, and the whole economy is affected...
...effectively picked up where Snowdon left off. Iacono and his colleagues discovered that not only did nuns who avoided dementia later in life have 20% higher linguistic scores as young women, compared with peers who developed symptoms of cognitive decline, but that the relationship held up even in nuns whose brains showed all the physical signs of Alzheimer's. "There is a special group of people who have comparable amount of plaques and tangles - the typical marks of the disease - without the cognitive impairment," says Iacono. "[It appears that] people with higher linguistic scores were protected even in the face...
...understand Joe Klein's article "... and Start Talking to Hamas" Israelis should talk with Hamas, whose aim is to kill them [June 22]. How many Americans would advocate talks with Bin Laden? Salomon Yves Cohen, PARIS...
...hardly looked like a vision of democratic perfection. One presidential candidate was the nationalist daughter of a former strongman, while the incumbent was a retired general whose in-law was just jailed for corruption. Two of the vice-presidential nominees had been accused of directing human-rights abuses during their military careers. Yet the election that took place in Indonesia on July 8 was, in fact, testament to the remarkable political experiment unfolding in the world's fourth most populous nation...
...Yudhoyono made tackling corruption a pillar of his first term. In a country where leaders are expected to protect their own family or clan even at the expense of the state, S.B.Y. didn't stand in the way of the corruption conviction last month of a prominent banker whose daughter is married to the President's own son. (See pictures of a deadly dam burst near Jakarta...