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...shame is that in the vast majority of such cases, financial pain is avoidable. While flood insurance is routinely excluded from almost all policies, it is widely available--on request--and at rates that make a lot of sense. Why don't more people have it? One problem is that they don't understand how insurers define flood. I'll get to that, and, trust me, Webster would choke on the description. An even bigger problem is that insurance agents have little incentive to write flood coverage. Meanwhile, many agents and local officials are so ill informed that they mislead...
Gerald Amirault, who has also tried to request a new trial, has been denied, and he remains in prison...
...profoundly meaningful. This does not mean the book is flawless. It simply means that in the sum of things Jedediah Purdy has written a book that, in its example of a person who is unafraid to express out loud his delicate loves, richly deserves fulfillment of its modest request: "I cannot help believing that we need a way of thinking, and doing, that has in it more promise of goodness than the one we are now following. I want to speak a word for that belief, in the hope of an answer...
...last week's decision to sue cannot alone lift the heavy cloud of deceit shrouding the actions of cigarette manufacturers. Congress must grant the Justice Department's request for $20 million for expert witnesses and government lawyers in order to make the lawsuit viable. And the Justice Department itself must permit evidence gathered in a five year long criminal investigation of cigarette manufacturers to be used in the civil lawsuit so tax payer dollars aren't unnecessarily wasted in a duplication of efforts...
Vengeance against Chechens may be all Putin has to offer Russians this winter. Another disappointing harvest has forced Moscow to turn once again to the U.S. for a second massive shipment of food aid, following last year's request for $1 billion in grain and meat. Although corruption scandals have created a pall of suspicion over aid to Russia, U.S. officials report that food shipments have largely escaped corruption. One bit of good news for the Kremlin came from the IMF. Despite the suspicion that his organization's aid hasn't always escaped the web of corruption, IMF president Michel...