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Clinton to smack Hastert

Hastert Tries Damage Control After Remarks Hit a Nerve: House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert began his day yesterday explaining that he really does not want to see New Orleans bulldozed, and he ended it defending his absence from the Capitol when Congress approved a $10.5 billion hurricane aid package. In Syracuse, N.Y., former president Bill …

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most overvalued housing markets

Why Californians can’t afford to buy houses: Most of the most overvalued markets, according to DeKaser, are in California and Florida. Number one is Santa Barbara, where home prices, at a median of $564,100, are 69 percent higher than they should be. Close behind is another Golden State city, Salinas, where home prices, at $515,231, …

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too little, too late

Budget cuts delayed New Orleans flood control work: “It’s clear that we didn’t do everything we could to safeguard ourselves from this hurricane or from a natural disaster such as Katrina but hopefully we will learn and be more prepared next time,” said Landrieu spokesman Brian Richardson. The levee defenses had been designed to withstand …

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CNN calls Brown on bullshit

The official version; then there’s the in-the-trenches version: Uncollected corpses Brown: That’s not been reported to me, so I’m not going to comment. Until I actually get a report from my teams that say, "We have bodies located here or there," I’m just not going to speculate. Segal: We saw one body. A person is …

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