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A pending civil suit against MBIA, an insurer of mortgage-backed securities, may illuminate the misbehavior of the financial industry before and during the downturn.
Buildings by “starchitects” were all the rage during the condo building boom. But resale prices show star power goes only so far.
Incentives, safety and the inexpensive sets as a result of the housing crisis have shifted productions of Spanish-language soap operas from Mexico to Miami.
Apps that let users find friends whenever they are nearby are to be on display at the South by Southwest technology, music and film conference.
Elizabeth Warren has drawn support for her Massachusetts Senate campaign from all over the country, a fact her opponent is trying to use against her.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 7, 2012, covering March 9, 2012.
Adele
Whitney Houston
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Tyga
Various Artists
2012A truce between the Salvadoran government and gangs in the country goes into effect when 30 gang leaders are transferred to lower security prisons.[†]
From March 2012 to May 2014, the Salvadoran government, the Catholic Church, and the country's two largest criminal gangs — Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang — came to a truce, known in El Salvador simply as the Gang Truce, to lower the country's rate of homicides and extortions in exchange for improved prison conditions and certain visitation privileges. The truce's principal negotiators were Minister of Public Security David Munguía Payés, former deputy Raúl Mijango, and Bishop Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca, and the negotiations were overseen by President Mauricio Funes.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]