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Wall St. reformers angered by secret Goldman Sachs emails crowing about housing collapse

Democrats pushing Wall Street reform seized yesterday on e-mails showing Goldman Sachs executives privately crowing over the housing collapse that ruined so many ordinary Americans.

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E-mails reveal Goldman Sachs execs gloated as housing market crashed

E-mails released by a Senate committee investigating the financial crisis show top executives at Goldman Sachs Inc. boasting about money the firm was making as the housing market collapsed in 2007.

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March housing starts gain on multifamily building (AP)

In this April 5, 2010, a construction worker carries a ladder to a home under construction in Sacramento, Calif. Housing construction posted a better-than-expected performance in March, rising to the highest level in 16 months, as strength in the South offset declines in the rest of the country. But economists believe the housing industry is still facing significant headwinds as it tries to recover from the steepest slump in decades.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP – Housing construction posted a better-than-expected performance in March, rising to the highest level in 16 months on the strength of multi-family homes.


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Clinton slams Israel on housing announcement (AP)

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on the release of the State Department's 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Thursday, March 11, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government’s announcement this week of new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, calling it “a deeply negative signal” for the Mideast peace process and ties with the U.S.


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Obama to tout housing help Friday in Las Vegas (AP)

President Barack Obama salutes during his arrival at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP – President Barack Obama is unveiling $1.5 billion in housing help, a boost timed to his appearance in the city with the worst foreclosure crisis in the nation.


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Small plane crashes into Texas building housing IRS (AP)

Smoke billows from a seven-story building after a small private plane crashed into the building  in Austin, Texas on Thursday Feb. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Claudia Grisales) MANDATORY CREDIT. NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO TVAP – A low-flying small plane crashed into an office building that houses the Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Texas on Thursday, and at least one person was missing, witnesses and officials said.


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Housing Haiti’s homeless sparks debate as rains loom

Return To Haiti Planned
When a major earthquake shook the small island nation of Haiti to its core earlier this month, a group of nurse practitioners, medical students and other volunteers from the Glenview-based humanitarian organization Little By Little (LBL) were already on the ground, swinging into action to treat the injured.

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Fed Hill For Haiti
Local restauants do their part to help earthquake ravaged Haiti.

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Protests, frustration at Haiti aid bottlenecks
Hunger turned to anger in Haiti’s capital on Wednesday as hundreds of protesters marched through the streets accusing local officials of demanding bribes for donated food.

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Resident Pilot Part Of Haiti Relief
When a devastating earthquake struck Haiti earlier this month, 34-year-old U.S. Air Force Squadron Cmdr. Capt. Gina Stramaglio of Elk Grove Village had just taken off from Port-au-Prince.

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Housing Haiti’s homeless sparks debate as rains loom
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Sitting at a table under billowing bed sheets, David Delva tries to compile a list of around 12,000 people who now live in an open field below a hillside slum that collapsed in Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake.

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