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• Subprime Lending Crisis: Auto Loans Thrive, Housing Down
  In the wake of the credit crisis, banks have scaled back lending to subprime borrowers. But other lenders have stepped in, making high-interest-rate loans to borrowers with low credit scores […]
• Bloomberg Sports Targets Fantasy Baseball, Major League
  The media giant is selling its analytical expertise to baseball fans, and Major League Baseball teams. Can a Bloomberg consumer business hit it out of the park? […]
• American Idol Watch: The No-Confidence Boys
  At the beginning of the last boys' night before the final-12 round of American Idol, the male contingent of the singing contest lined up on stage as if they were getting ready to die. […]
• Jihad Jane: Terrorism Charge Boosts Patriot Act Support
  Growing evidence of an expanded terrorism threat from U.S. citizens, like that of Colleen LaRose, a.k.a. "Jihad Jane," may undermine efforts to trim the Patriot Act's powers […]
• Karl Rove Memoir 'Courage' Defends Bush Legacy, Iraq War
  In 'Courage and Consequence,' his tale of the George W. Bush years, Karl Rove disses his critics and defends the boss. No news there […]