Eviction.

In the early afternoon on October 1st, Donald Fatheree, a sheriff 's deputy in Akron, Ohio, drove his black-and-gold cruiser into one of Akron's dying neighborhoods and came to a stop in front of a small white wood-frame house, with a neatly trimmed lawn and a beige Chevrolet parked in the driveway. He had been there many times before. Part of Fatheree's job is to execute writs of possession, legal orders turning people out of their foreclosed homes--a disagreeable task mitigated, if only slightly, by the long grind of the process. Akron is so beset by foreclosures (there were several hundred last month) that it often takes a year or more for a foreclosure to result in an ...