February 23, 2012

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Crisis In The Housing Market

With Banks As Landlords, Some Tenants Neglected()  

 Luz Escamilla's bedroom walls are stained with the blood of bedbugs. She says she doesn't want to bleach them until reps from CW Capital, her landlord, pay an in-person visit to her Maryland home.

Big banks and other large investors are buying up tens of thousands of foreclosed rental properties across the country. According to tenants and regulators, they're not model landlords. Some fail to follow housing codes, leaving tenants to live without even a number to call in the most dire situations.

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All Tech Considered

Troubled Sony Pins Hopes On PlayStation Vita()  

Sony's PlayStation Vita and its predecessor, The PlayStation Portable.

Sony launched its new PlayStation Vita on Wednesday. The portable device is geared toward hard-core gamers and offers a lot of new technology. And after a string of tough times at Sony, the company needs this gadget to sell. Sony is trying to distinguish the Vita from the smartphones it's competing against.

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Planet Money

How Mitt Romney's Firm Tried — And Failed — To Build A Paper Empire()  

Mitt Romney, shown here when he was president of Bain Capital.

It starts with an ordinary legal pad made by a company that's been around for more than a century. This is the first of two stories we're doing today on Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney helped found.

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Middle East

Egypt's Press Still Feels The Power Of The Military()  

An Egyptian stock trader reads a copy of the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper last November. Critics say the newspaper is reluctant to criticize the ruling military council and has engaged in self-censorship.

Hopes ran high for a new era of freedom of expression after the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. But a year later, Egypt's independent media still face challenges from the ruling military council and from self-censorship.

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Movie Interviews

Private Screening: How Hollywood Watches Its Work()  

At the Charles Aidikoff Screening Room on Rodeo Drive, filmmakers can screen their works-in-progress for an invite-only audience in the small, 57-seat theater. The screening room is also rented to show films to members of the Academy and the press.

Filmmakers rely on private screening rooms to show their unfinished films to invite-only audiences. NPR's Susan Stamberg visits one screening room on Rodeo Drive, run by 97-year-old Charles Aidikoff, and his grandson, Josh. Four generations of Aidikoffs have worked in the projection business.

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