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...across the street. The bank that made the construction loan for that building would soon have to decide whether to "extend and pretend," as the industry saying goes, or take a loss. After that, we visited a neighborhood of giant new warehouses. On one side of the street was yet another building with an underwater construction loan that the bank was stuck with. Opposite was a facility that a vulture investor pounced on last year, thinking it was cheap, only to see prices continue their decline. (See the five big questions about retirement...
National-security experts like UCLA's Amy Zegart say that since 9/11, intelligence agencies have increased the amount of information they circulate to one another, but that can cause confusion as well as clarity. "There's a lot of paper shuffling, not true integration," Zegart says. And yet, some critical pieces of info apparently were not shared: the State Department neglected to alert the NCTC that Abdulmutallab had a valid U.S. visa...
...children on the fifth floor; the fourth floor featured an illegal abortion clinic. On other floors, as many as four girls slept on a single mattress. Police raided the Maitland in 2008 and shut the place down last January. Traffickers had been tipped off about the final raid, yet officials still rescued dozens of underage girls and seized weapons and thousands of dollars' worth of drugs. Though still officially closed, the Maitland was active. Next door, a club blasted music by Tupac, and several girls worked the front of the hotel, where a makeshift concierge took rents. (See TIME...
...Crimson (9-5, 0-1 Ivy) quickly fouled Smith, who had yet to score a basket in the game. But the senior found her shot at the right time, hitting two free throws to give the Big Green (5-9, 1-0 Ivy) a 45-44 victory on its home court Saturday night...
Reinvigorated by the President's support, King's widow, Coretta, testified before joint hearings of Congress and organized a nationwide lobby to support the bill. Yet in November 1979, Conyers' King-holiday bill was defeated in the House by just five votes. Coretta continued her fight for approval of a national holiday, testifying before Congress several more times and mobilizing governors, mayors and city council members across the nation to make the passage of a King-holiday bill part of their agenda. Singer Stevie Wonder became a prominent proponent and released the song "Happy Birthday" in 1980 - it became...