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- Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A…
- One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican,…
- In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving…
- Msnbc.com identified 143 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal…
- The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.
- Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of…
- Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage…
- Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.
- MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political…
- Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.
- In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.
- Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers.…
- It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come…
- Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of…
- In votes cast, Latinos have increased to five million in the 1996 Presidential election, up from two million in the 1976 election. The number of…
- The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide