Argentina looks to rewrite history as default No. 9 looms

BUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Buenos Aires estate agent Esperanza Abondano is feeling the pinch of Argentina's debt crisis as the country inches toward a potential ninth default with a hard deadline for bond payments on Friday and a restructuring deal with creditors still elusive.The recent history of the South American nation, famed for its Pampas grasslands of soy and cattle and once among the world's wealthiest countries, is littered with defaults. A major one in 2001 sparked over a..