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...some regulated tightly by the feds and others covered by only a porous patchwork of state oversight. The least regulated are the independent mortgage lenders, which sell the loans they write to Wall Street or to one of those government-sponsored enterprises with a funny name--Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae. Some of these lenders are perfectly respectable. Others, such as subprime biggies New Century Financial and American Home Mortgage, are now bankrupt...
...Barack Obama black enough for your vote? Annie Mac'Kie, CALGARY...
...ancient precursor of sushi would probably be unrecognizable to the modern diner. Raw fish was packed in jars with layers of rice and fermented for weeks, like pungent cheese. These days, of course, sushi is as innocuous as a Big Mac, and just as ubiquitous. In The Zen of Fish, Trevor Corson reports that even the Wal-Mart in Plano, Texas, has its own sushi counter...
...campaign worked--so well that ABC picked it up as a sitcom for the fall. And the knee-jerk critical snarking began. Of course the show would be bad--it came from a commercial! What's next? scoffed the Philadelphia Daily News. A buddy sitcom for the Mac and PC guys...
...happens, I wrote for The Crimson for four years. Sometimes, I engaged serious topics like sports and race. Other times, I invited troubled basketball player Ron Artest to speak at Class Day and called for the creation of a SlamBall court at the MAC. Towards the end, I blogged...