On July 12, 2007, during a long, hot mission, American soldiers searched houses in a ruined maze of a neighborhood in east Baghdad. The largely routine effort came to a violent conclusion: An Apache helicopter circling overhead spotted several men carrying weapons. The chopper stalked the targets, then opened fire. Among the 11 killed were a Reuters photographer and his driver. Among the wounded were two young children. Read full article > >

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‘Incident in New Baghdad’: What happened in Iraq?

NEW DELHI — A bomb attack Monday on an Israeli diplomat’s car in New Delhi underlines the tough balancing act that India has to perform as it attempts to manage its relations with the United States and Israel, and with Iran. Read full article > >

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India walks tightrope as U.S. toughens Iran sanctions

If that end-of-the-year bonus didn’t send your household earnings well north of half a million dollars, you can’t count yourself among the elite 1 percent of Washington’s high earners. It took a household income of almost $520,000 to make it into the top tier in the Washington region, according to a new analysis of census data. Some high earners might ask: What recession? In 2007, the cutoff point for the top 1 percent was $517,000. Read full article > >

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What it takes to be a 1 percenter in the Washington area

The deal was forged in 2008 when a fledgling nonprofit group with political connections promised to turn distressed apartment complexes into badly needed homes for troubled young men. Peaceoholics had never bought or repaired a building. It had never operated affordable housing. It had no construction money from private lenders and less than $27,000 cash on hand. Read full article > >

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D.C. housing deal shows much spent but less accomplished

On Aug. 24, 2007, June Chokechaitanasin sent an e-mail to her closest girlfriends. “ I am giving up men for six months ,” she wrote. “ It may sound crazy, but I have had such bad luck that I need to get my head straight and focus on more productive things .” Read full article > >

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On Love: ‘When I met him, I just felt it was right’

For home invasion murders in 2007.

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Conn. Killer Sentenced to Death

Engaged: Barney Frank , 71, and longtime partner Jim Ready , 42, the congressman’s office confirmed for us Thursday, following a report by New England Cable News . Where’s the wedding? In Massachusetts, where gay nuptials were made legal in 2004. When? Sorry, that’s all the details they’d give. Frank is set to leave Congress next winter after 32 years, and he’s said the rigors of the job and the desire to devote more time to his relationship were factors. “I have a partner now,” Frank told Charlie Rose in an interview a couple weeks ago. “I’m in love for the first time in my life.” The couple met at a political fundraiser in Ready’s home state of Maine. The Advocate described him in 2009 as a Todd Palin lookalike and surfing enthusiast. Their mostly low-profile relationship has made the news a handful of times, when Ready exchanged words with his beau’s opponents at public forums, and when he was charged with having marijuana plants at his home in 2007. Read full article > >

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Barney Frank engaged to boyfriend Jim Ready (updated)

In New York City alone, nearly $70 billion worth of commercial mortgages that were issued as collateral for bonds in 2007 are maturing this year.

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Square Feet: In New York, Anxiety Over Billions in Maturing Real Estate Loans

When private-equity giant Blackstone Group took Hilton Worldwide private in a $26 billion buyout in 2007, the timing could not have been worse. It wasn’t long before a financial crisis consumed the global economy, and business travel — the bread and butter of the hotel giant — fell sharply. Read full article > >

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When President Obama has a bad day, or more specifically, on days when the economic news has been bad, I get a slew of feedback from conservative readers that go like this: “See, you liberal media nincompoops, this is all your fault, you treated Obama like a saint when he was running in 2007 and 2008 and you didn’t vet him, investigate him, report on him skeptically. You were so fawning (and adoring of his blackness), you missed that he was a (pick your adjective), radical, socialist, Muslim, inexperienced, dangerous, corrupt, weak Chicago politician with no track record of accomplishment, whose only talent is giving speeches.” Read full article > >

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Scrutinize President Obama’s record

A council pleads guilty to a health and safety charge over the deaths of four firefighters killed in a warehouse blaze in Warwickshire in 2007.

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Council admits fire deaths charge

Stewart O’Nan seems incapable of writing a false line. Whether describing the unimaginable ( losing one’s child ) or the mundane ( losing one’s appetite ), his modest sentences crystallize the lives of ordinary people. His previous novel , “ Emily, Alone ,” described the daily outings of an 80-year-old widow in Pittsburgh. Emily’s pulse beat stronger than her story, but with all the novel’s insight and charm, that lack of action didn’t matter. O’Nan is a author you learn to trust, no matter what he’s writing about. Read full article > >

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Take a chance on ‘The Odds’

Stewart O’Nan seems incapable of writing a false line. Whether describing the unimaginable ( losing one’s child ) or the mundane ( losing one’s appetite ), his modest sentences crystallize the lives of ordinary people. His previous novel , “ Emily, Alone ,” described the daily outings of an 80-year-old widow in Pittsburgh. Emily’s pulse beat stronger than her story, but with all the novel’s insight and charm, that lack of action didn’t matter. O’Nan is a author you learn to trust, no matter what he’s writing about. Read full article > >

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Take a chance on ‘The Odds’

Read through Wonkbook today and you’ll get both the best case for reelecting President Obama, and the single issue most likely to stand between him and a second term. The case for Obama comes by way of Andrew Sullivan. It’s worth reading, if for no other reason than if you run in circles that talk politics, you’ll probably be asked to discuss it sometime this week. It’s an agenda-setting article like that. And, in a sense, it’s one Sullivan has written twice. In 2007, he profiled Obama for The Atlantic, in a piece that did a better job articulating Obama’s postpartisan appeal than even the candidate himself. This year, he has written a defense of Obama’s record that is better than anything the campaign has produced itself. Much as the ideas in Sullivan’s original Atlantic article felt novel early in the 2007 campaign but became the standard case for Obama by the time Americans went to vote, the arguments in Sullivan’s Newsweek article feel unusual now but will soon become standard among, at the least, Obama’s supporters. Read full article > >

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Wonkbook: The case for Obama, and the continent that stands in his way

Thieves in Manchester dig a 100ft (30m) underground tunnel to get to a cash machine, after a similar plot was foiled in the same area in 2007.

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