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Politics
3:12 am
Fri April 27, 2012

House To Vote On Student Loan Bill

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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 5:24 am

Lawmakers in the House plan to vote Friday on a measure that would prevent a doubling of the student loan interest rate on July 1. The House would pay for the decreased revenue by raiding the new health care law's fund for preventive care.

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3:12 am
Fri April 27, 2012

The Last Word In Business

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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 5:46 am

Sales of previously owned homes are up more than 10 percent from last year, according to The Wall Street Journal. At the same time, the number of homes for sale is at the lowest levels in years. The result, say many real estate firms, is that most of the offers being made these days come with competing bids.

Europe
12:42 am
Fri April 27, 2012

Showdown Looms Over Europe's Largest Shantytown

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Residents of Cañada Real stand near recently demolished shacks on March 5. The settlement is separated into different sections and tends to be segregated by ethnic groups: Roma in one section, Arabs in another, for example.
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A digger demolishes a shack as a boy walks nearby in one section of the sprawling Cañada Real slum on the outskirts of Madrid on March 5. After decades of turning a blind eye to Europe's largest illegal settlement, cash-strapped authorities are demolishing homes there and taking back the land.
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Cañada Real is built on a traditional livestock path and dry riverbed that has been public land for 700 years. Dwellings have existed here for up to 40 years.
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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 8:24 pm

Europe's largest illegal settlement lies on the edge of Madrid. As the Spanish capital has grown, the city's limits have moved ever closer to the shantytown known as Cañada Real, a sprawling tangle of tents and cement houses. And as the economy has tanked, a growing number of people are calling it home.

Now the city is eyeing the property for possible development.

The roads in Cañada Real are unpaved. Houses are made of corrugated metal or cement. Some lots are just piles of garbage.

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Theater
12:41 am
Fri April 27, 2012

Managing The Gershwins' Lucrative Musical Legacy

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In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Matthew Broderick plays Jimmy Winter, a New York playboy of the Prohibition era. The show is at the Imperial Theatre.
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In Porgy and Bess, Serena (Bryonha Marie Parham) and Maria (NaTasha Yvette Williams) give Porgy (Norm Lewis) some distressing news. The show is is playing at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 5:24 am

In the 1920s, it wasn't uncommon for the Gershwin Brothers — composer George and lyricist Ira — to have two shows running on Broadway at the same time. What's surprising is that this season, 75 years after George's death, it's happening again, with Porgy and Bess and Nice Work If You Can Get It.

It's no coincidence: Both shows were generated by the Gershwin estates, the nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews charged with looking after a legacy that's not only highly loved, but immensely lucrative — a multimillion-dollar-a-year responsibility.

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Europe
5:34 am
Thu April 26, 2012

Swedish Woman Gets Invitation Meant For Official

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Originally published on Thu April 26, 2012 7:21 am

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