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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned earlier this year over his involvement in a prostitution ring, will write a column for online magazine Slate.com about the economy and financial regulation.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=CS9PIInZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=qM92cKZt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=qM92cKZt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=Z3wPjNrq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=Z3wPjNrq" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Reuters/InternetNews/~4/ebQetm-xzC8" height="1" width="1"/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/41745?ns=guardianpageName=Media%3A+Disgraced+ex-New+York+governor+Eliot+Spitzer+to+write+for+Slate.comch=Mediac3=guardian.co.ukc4=Digital+media%2CPress+and+publishing%2CMedia%2CBusiness%2CUS+news%2CInternet%2CPoliticsc5=Press+Media%2CDigital+Media%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CMedia+Weekly%2CTechnology+Gadgetsc6=Jemima+Kissc7=2008_12_04c8=1128700c9=articlec10=GUc11=Mediac12=blogc13=c14=PDAh2=GU%2FMedia%2Fblog%2FPDA" width="1" height="1" //divpWhat next for the ambitious career politician who fell from the heady heights of strongNew York/strong governor after being linked with a prostitution ring? Journalism, apparently./ppMaybe no-one else would take him, but strongEliot Spitzer/strong has re-emerged a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081203/media_nm/us_spitzer_slate"on the magazine site strongSlate.com/strong/a a modest nine-months after the scandal of his involvement in a $1,000-per-hour prostitution ring./ppa href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderferret/125543849/" title="Front Door by wonderferret, on Flickr"img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/125543849_7c5a11958d.jpg" width="460" alt="Front Door" //abr /emNope, no prostitutes here. Photograph: a href="http://flickr.com/photos/wonderferret/125543849/"wonderferret/a/Flickr/a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_GB"Some rights reserved/a/em/ppSpitzer has begun writing a column for the site on the economy and financial regulation, group editor strongJacob Weisberg/strong said last night. a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2205995/pagenum/all/#p2"The first column/a explains why the government should not bail out big financial institutions, and that that money could have been used to "increase the intellectual capabilities of the next generation". "Our dependence on entities of this size ensured that we would fall prey to a 'too big to fail' argument in favor of bailouts," he wrote./ppWeisberg said Slate approached Spitzer several months ago about writing the column, and would have hired him "even if he'd never been governor"./pp"He was the de facto national regulator of the financial industry. I think he just has a keen understanding and a shrewd perspective on those issues," Weisberg said of the former 'Sheriff of strongWall Street/strong' - who had developed a reputation for cracking down on prostitution and financial crime./pp/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/digitalmedia"Digital media/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pressandpublishing"Press publishing/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/internet"Internet/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/1GFB2kMkOKWwaq_f7SD0l15JIIY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/1GFB2kMkOKWwaq_f7SD0l15JIIY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/99182?ns=guardianpageName=Politics%3A+Brown+acts+to+stop+wave+of+repossessionsch=Politicsc3=The+Guardianc4=Queen%27s+speech%2CGordon+Brown%2CMortgages+%28Money%29%2CFirst-time+buyers%2CHouse+prices+%28Money%29%2CConsumer+affairs+%28Money%29%2CState+benefits%2CEconomic+policy%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CBorrowing+and+debt%2CWelfare+%28Politics%29%2CPolitics%2CMoney%2CBusiness%2CHousing+market+%28Business%29%2CUK+newsc5=Personal+Finance%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CSocial+Care+Society%2CProperty+Mortgages+and+Interest+Ratesc6=Patrick+Wintourc7=2008_12_04c8=1128414c9=articlec10=GUc11=Politicsc12=Queen%27s+speechc13=c14=h2=GU%2FPolitics%2FQueen%27s+speech" width="1" height="1" //divpHomeowners struggling to pay their mortgages were given a reprieve by Gordon Brown yesterday when he unveiled a plan to let people affected by the economic downturn take a two-year mortgage interest payment holiday./ppThe intervention was aimed at removing the prospect of an increase in home repossessions before a general election and to give people breathing space if they lose their jobs or take a big cut in their income. It is also designed to show that Labour would help middle Britain through the recession./ppBrown's surprise move came amid reports that without the government's intervention, repossessions were set to increase to 75,000 next year, hitting levels last seen in 1991, the worst year of the previous recession./ppEight banks and building societies, covering 70% of the mortgage market, have agreed to allow families struggling with mortgage payments the right to defer all, or part, of their interest payments for two years. The government will underwrite the scheme./ppBrown's surprise was sprung during the debate on a relatively sparse Queen's speech and followed secret Treasury talks with the building societies and banks. Many details, including the qualification rules, have yet to be finalised but officials denied the institutions had been bounced into a premature agreement to provide Brown with some gloss on a grey Queen's speech, which was almost overshadowed yesterday by the war of words between police and parliament over the raids on Conservative MP Damian Green's office./ppThe prime minister said the scheme would cover any household which suffered a redundancy or "significant loss of income". This would, for the first time, extend help to households where one family member loses their job and the other remains in work./ppThe Treasury plans for the scheme to apply to mortgages up to £400,000, and would probably kick in where the applicants have savings of less than £16,000./ppThe government has estimated that the cost of guaranteeing the delayed mortgage payments would add a £1bn contingent liability to government borrowing, but only cost £100m directly in eventual defaults. Building societies and banks would act as gatekeepers of the scheme, deciding whether the request to defer mortgage payments was justified. No definition of "a significant loss of income" was provided yesterday, but government officials said it might cover someone forced to take a less well-paid job or less in overtime./ppTreasury officials said the numbers liable for help would not be so large as to damage the mortgage insurance industry. The help was designed to lift the fear of repossession for those facing job insecurity. Those in safe jobs were going to enjoy falling mortgages, officials said./ppThe move comes as the Bank of England is expected to cut its base rate today. The markets expect a cut of one to two percentage points from the current rate of 3%. A cut of 1.5 points would take the rate lower than it has been since the Bank was formed in 1694./ppBrown told MPs: "Hardworking households that experience a redundancy or severe loss of income as a result of the downturn will be able to defer a proportion of their interest payments for up to two years as they get their family finances back on track."/ppThe Council of Mortgage Lenders said: "It is not a charter for 'won't pay' borrowers to avoid their responsibilities, but it will provide welcome reassurance to the vast majority of borrowers that the government and lenders are doing all they can ... to help those customers who 'can't pay' due to a change in circumstances."/ppBrown said the measure was in addition to protection for the unemployed, who can claim help to meet interest payments after 13 weeks./ppTreasury officials said banks and building societies would not suffer a serious loss of income as a result of the deferment. Brown also confirmed that the code on how banks treat business would be put on a statutory basis. Banks who fell foul of the code could face a range of sanctions, including fines./ppA total of 14 bills were revealed in the Queen's speech yesterday, including two carried over from the previous parliament. Overall, it represented the shortest legislative programme since the government came to power./ppThe programme takes in a new constitution for the NHS, confirmation of a right to seek flexible working for parents, and wider sanctions on the unemployed to make themselves "job ready". There was also a clamp down on "all you can drink" offers in pubs as well as lapdancing and prostitution in what one government official described as "action on the whole night out". 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pFormer U.S. vice president Al Gore urges us all to reduce our carbon footprint, yet he regularly flies in a private jet. Former drug czar William Bennett extols the importance of temperance but is reported to be a habitual gambler. Pastor Ted Haggard preached the virtues of ldquo;the clean liferdquo; until allegations of methamphetamine use and a taste for male prostitutes arose. Eliot Spitzer prosecuted prostitution rings as attorney general in New York State, but he was later found to be a regular client of one such ring./ppThese notorious accusations against public figures all involve hypocrisy, in which an individual fails to live according to the precepts he or she seeks to impose on others. Charges of hypocrisy are common in debates because they are highly effective: we feel compelled to shy;reject the views of hypocrites. But although we see hypocrisy as a vice and a symptom of incompetence or insincerity, we should be exceedingly careful about letting our emotions color our judgments of substantive issues./p a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-truth-about-hypocrisy[More]/a

pArthur is an alleged john, a man who patronizes prostitutes. After his arrest on September 5, 2008, a photograph of this 41-year-old appeared on the Web site of the Chicago Police Department. Arthur (not his real name) was far from the only person so branded on this Internet portal. Samuel, 59, and Joseacute;, 34, (whose names were also changed to protect their privacy) were on this online pillory for a month after their September 5 arrests./ppThe apprehensions of Arthur, Samuel, Joseacute; and many others represent the huge demand among males for prostitutes. In the U.S., police officers detained about 78,000 people in 2007 for prostitution-related crimes, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Experts believe that about 10 percent of these arrests are of the sex patrons, almost all of whom are men./p a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=why-do-men-buy-sex[More]/a