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On the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq , the Bush administration swears that things are finally looking up this year. [ Washington Post ]
How can subprime mortages take out a whole global financial system? Like so. [ New York Times ]
The weird jump in the Los Angeles homicide rate is not due to racial strife. So what is it? [ Los Angeles Times ]
Two culprits behind the housing bust: government cheerleaders for home ownership, and regulators who refused to, uh, regulate anything. [ Wall Street Journal ]
Chuck Schumer, head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, gets cocky as a 60-seat filibuster-proof majority looms tantalizingly within reach. [ The Hill ]
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke is dead at 90. [ Wall Street Journal ]