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The High-Stakes Game of Raffling Off Your House

The High-Stakes Game of Raffling Off Your House

In the casino of the housing market, Tom Walters is holding the wrong cards. He's a mortgage broker, so business has been slow, and on his own house, payments have risen to about $6,200 -- too much to handle.


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  1. The High-Stakes Game of Raffling Off Your House

    In the casino of the housing market, Tom Walters is holding the wrong cards. He's a mortgage broker, so business has been slow, and on his own house, payments have risen to about $6,200 -- too much to handle.

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  4. Stakes high as Obama, McCain head for final debate

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  5. High stakes in Afghanistan: Reversing a downward spiral

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  6. Stakes High In Ohio

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  7. Boeing strike: High stakes in outsourcing

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  8. High stakes

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  9. Battle for state legislatures carries high stakes

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  10. High-performance computing puts Ferrari in pole position in Formula One stakes

    On a sunny mid-week day in October, the racetrack at the Ferrari headquarters at Maranello in Italy is empty save for the occasional hum of a familiar red sports car being put through its paces.

  11. High-stakes, high-cost gay-rights vote

    Thousands of weddings after California's highest court sanctioned same-sex marriage, anxious eyes around the nation will closely follow voters Tuesday deciding whether to turn back the clock.

  12. Not Life or Death, but the Stakes Are Still High

    The corpse of inmate 225597 lay on a steel gurney in the state medical examiner's basement lab. Beside the body was a plastic bag stuffed with pants issued by the Prince George's County jail.

  13. For Examiners, Stakes Are High

    When medical examiners dissect a body, even the tiniest clues can have enormous implications.

  14. High Hopes for a New Friend in the White House

    Federal employee unions worked hard for Barack Obama during his winning presidential campaign.

  15. Underwear-clad Delta girls streak up a storm at high school football game

    Twelve female high school students sporting only their underwear and duct tape around their breasts ran across a football field during their school team's home game last week in Delta, B.C.

  16. A High Tech White House

    President-Elect Obama says he will embrace new technology in his administration and plans to appoint a Chief Technology Officer. Daniel Sieberg report.

  17. Teen Girl Stabs 5 After High School Football Game

    Investigators were searching Saturday for a teenage girl they say stabbed five others during a melee that ensued after a high school football game in southeast Florida.

  18. Automakers Press High-Stakes Plea for Aid

    The chieftains of Detroit's Big Three automakers made a desperate appeal to skeptical lawmakers yesterday for $25 billion in emergency loans to forestall the possible collapse of the domestic auto industry, offering to cut their own salaries in exchange for government aid.

  19. Theodore wins high-scoring game

    Capitals G Jose Theodore stopped 28 shots during a 6-4 win against the Ducks Wednesday. Theodore never trailed in the game and allowed just one power-play score. He has allowed nine goals in his last two games, but has won two of his last three starts.

  20. Tough Creamer not letting ailment stop high-stakes bid

    Sick all week with a mysterious stomach ailment, Paula Creamer spent Saturday night in a Boynton Beach hospital being tested, and she is playing Sunday with $1 million and the LPGA money title on the line.

  21. PreBudget report: Will high stakes gamble with taxpayers' cash win general election

    A few months ago Labour could not even find the last chance saloon.

  22. Alf Young analysis: Darling plays for high stakes

    The unimaginable trillions lost by banks in the past year and the mounting billions being pumped back into them by governments.

  23. Games Industry Scores High on Video Game Report Card

    A controversial media watch group has released its 13th annual report on the state of the video games industry, handing out three As, a single B+, and one nebulous "I" for "Incomplete." Whose homework was gobbled by the dog? Parents, it seems, who received the incomplete in "parental involvement." I...

  24. Watchdogs Give Video Game Raters, Vendors High Marks

    The National Institute on Media and the Family released its 13th annual video game report card Tuesday. The report's findings this year are relatively upbeat, with improved grades for retailers and the ESRB for making changes that the institute thinks will decreased the chances that inappropriate games will make their way into the hands of young children.

  25. Arundel and Linganore Meet in the Maryland High School Game of the Week

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  26. Essay: Heart of the Game Is in High School

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  27. Kessel riding high on 9-game streak

    The Sports Xchange reports Bruins RW Phil Kessel, still only 21 and rumored to be traded more than once in his young career, is staying right where he is. Kessel has scored a goal in six of the last seven games and has 11 points (six goals) during a nine-game points streak.

  28. U.S. military sets high-stakes missile-shield test

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is set to run a "realistic" test Friday of a system built to knock out long-range missiles that could be fired by North Korea or Iran, the Pentagon said.

  29. FEULNER: High-stakes missile defense

    As I write this column in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama is in the same hotel announcing his national security team. Let's take a closer look at an early challenge they'll have to face in what he calls "this uncertain world."

  30. For Wilde Lake Players, Emotions Run High In DuVall's Final Game

    Despite holding their opponent's star running back to just 34 yards, Wilde Lake can't stanch two big plays, leading to a 13-0 defeat in its coach's final game.

  31. More Than a Game: Another View of High School Sports

    Like so many teams playing in the Maryland football championships, Sherwood fed off the emotion of playing on the state's biggest stage, in M&T Bank Stadium.

  32. Ford's High-Stakes Gamble

    DEARBORN, Mich. -- Designed by architects from Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the Chicago firm that created many icons of postwar modernism, Ford's headquarters building has the sleek glass-and-steel minimalism that characterized up-to-date architecture in the 1950s, when America was at the wheel of the world and even buildings seemed streamlined for speed. Ford's building opened in 1956, a peak of American confidence -- one year before Sputnik shook Americans' faith in their technological supremacy and the Edsel shook their faith in the acumen of a corporate America grown slothful from complacency.

  33. History predicts another high-scoring game

    DETROIT (AP) | The Motor City Bowl is where teams put points on the board.

  34. High moral stakes and the Church, in shades of gray

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  35. Stakes are high for the Israeli government as Lebanon War fiasco lingers

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  36. In High-Tech Game, Football Sticks to an Old Measure of Success

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  37. Stakes high for friendly city rivals

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  38. House with another double digit game

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  39. Virginia high school QB shines in all-star game

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  40. 'Canes score two at high school All-America Game

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  41. Streit riding high on five-game streak

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  42. What is your reaction to our video showing a confrontation between a Halifax police officer and a student at Citadel High?

    The Halifax police department is investigating the conduct of one of its officers following a confrontation at Citadel High. Police were called to the school after a student assaulted two teachers. CBC video shows an officer getting into the face of one young student. Both police and the school say the student had nothing to do with the assault. Watch our video and tell us what you think. You'll find it by going to our "Other Stories" tab.

  43. Phillies win Game 2 for grieving Manuel

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  44. Be Game, Like Erin Burnett

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