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Finally, there's the matter of effectiveness. Washington's response has so far shielded the economy from the worst of the catastrophe in financial markets. But it hasn't fixed the problem that started the crisis: the fact that a few million Americans got home loans they can never pay...
Some of the stories, Weintrob recalled, were too outrageous to believe at first. Crews on a jet complained about a broken weather radar system 31 times before it was fixed; when a Boston flight had a stuck landing gear, the plane was diverted to the Washington area, but on the...
The first movement came before dawn: villagers filed out of their homes and a few hundred armed attackers took up positions in people's parlors and bedrooms. At about 4:30 a.m. in the town of Want, which is part of Nooristan province in eastern Afghanistan, the attackers, believed to...
Lenders often agree to loan modifications when borrowers run into trouble--one industry group says 315,000 home loans were modified in the first five months of this year. The Dodd-Frank plan aims to increase that number with help from the FHA. The agency would insure existing loans in...
The Tour de France, which kicks off July 5, is a grueling test of human endurance, a three-week 2,175mile (3,500 km) race stretched over 21 stages, nine of them in the mountains. But in some ways the modern Tour is easier than races past. In the early...