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...calling it "touching and credible" if a teen pregnancy had occurred in the Obama family. Everyone would be writing about the tragedy of teen pregnancy in the African-American community, the high school dropout rate of teen mothers and so on. Barack Obama's career would be under fire, and no one would be spinning myths to stop it. Catherine D. Nardi, CHICAGO...
...lawmakers looked the other way as financial firms grew and morphed and created financial instruments no one understood well enough to oversee. When housing prices caught fire, the big financial players jumped in with borrowed money that they in turn lent out to home buyers who didn't have the means to keep up with the payments. Then the banks sliced and diced those loans and sold them as exotic new securities. All of that left everyone naked and exposed when the market crashed...
Harvard showed some fire late in the second half. With ten minutes left in the game, McVeigh scored the Crimson’s first and only goal. Senior back Francine Polet fired a hard pass to McVeigh from just outside the circle. McVeigh redirected the ball past UConn goaltender Andrea Mainiero to score her first goal of the season...
...exhausted and by now more than a little frustrated with the candidate they have come to both love and hate. Put them all in a room together in what are often poorly planned prep sessions, and you have the perfect recipe for disaster: the staffers discover great catharsis in firing increasingly nasty "prep" questions at the candidates, who in turn become more and more itchy under fire until finally exploding with a gusher of recriminations at their staffs for failing to prepare them for so many impossible questions...
...Question: "Governor, why is your hair on fire...