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...forgive principal, only defers it, which may not go very far at a time when some 18% of mortgage holders owe more to the bank than their house is worth. "If all they're doing is lengthening the loan maturity, it may reduce the economic stress a little bit, but it doesn't deal with the main problem, which is you have an underwater loan," says Richard Green, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern California...
...your cover promised "Exclusive: Joe Klein Grills Obama" [Nov. 3]. I felt that such a serious turn in reporting was exactly what the country needed. However, the article itself felt barely reheated, let alone grilled. Indeed, Klein refers almost apologetically to an earlier interview in which Obama "grew a bit testy when I pushed him on the need for universal health insurance and a more aggressive global-warming policy." Instead of continuing to push, Klein came off as merely pulling the Obama wagon toward the presidential finish line. Please, Mr. Klein, we finally have in Obama the grownup...
...week with an ankle injury, and how he recovers will prove critical for Harvard’s early season success. “Right now, we’re a little banged up,” Amaker said. “We’re worried a little bit about where we are with bodies. You know, that happens a lot at the beginning of the year. I think we have some injuries where guys are going to be able to come back from, and then we have a couple that I’m not sure about...
...upon me a mental directory of Harvard’s athletes, the likes of which could only be achieved by someone spending hours every day utilizing each of the aforementioned means of creeping. This may not seem to be the most alarming of situations, but when you throw a bit of personal awkwardness into the mix, the potential for embarrassment abounds.The first, and mildest, of the many side effects of these unbalanced relationships is the accidental wave. Having occurred more times than I would like to admit, the accidental wave results from momentarily forgetting that the athletes you write...
...don’t have to be small and elite…we can be ambitious and inclusive,” said Harrington. “There was something in the ’60s and ’70s that History and Science was a bit squirrely and academic in the negative sense of the word...