What Hong Kong Is Doing Right - Wall Street Journal
As in many other parts of the world, a homeowner who defaults on a mortgage loan in Hong Kong doesn't just risk losing the home; the borrower's bank savings and other assets are fair game, too. By contrast, in much of the U.S. nonrecourse loans—in

Oscar fashion’s back story - Los Angeles Times
Forget about the movies: At Oscar time, in homes across America, armchair fashion critics give thumbs up or thumbs down to the clothes worn on the red carpet or on stage as presenters and awardees glam it up. But for everyone who looked at Björk in

Jim Ingraham: Branyan is sign of Indians' confusion - News-Herald.com
That they think they have such a strong group of pitchers that they can spend what few discretionary dollars they have on another hitter On the surface, signing a free agent who hit 31 home runs the year before sounds like a sound move.

Public lands or zoos for wild horses? - Harness Link.com
commit millions upon millions of future dollars every dollar that program costs taxpayers. "The Salazoo plan is yet another raid on the public funds by special interests", says EWA's John Holland. BLM has spent more than $2 million in 2009

Iraqi rivalries largely unresolved ahead of March vote - Arizona Daily Star
BAGHDAD - Iraq is a week away from a parliamentary election that is supposed to showcase a peaceful democracy poised to stand on its own feet after U.S. forces go home. While there have been successes, the vote also underlines the deep ethnic and