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...well-known Sunday Seven kicks it up a notch from 8 to 11:30 p.m., offering seven snacks—from burgers to pasta—at only $2 a pop with a drink order. But before you tell the dining hall staff to shove off, remember: at Grendel’s, you often get what you pay for. The food sometimes seems pre-made and haphazardly thrown together. But then again, you can’t deny the college mantra: “Good food is cheap food.” Lee’s Sandwich Shop (61 Church...
...party leaders swarmed out of their cars to shout slogans they were picked up one by one by apologetic police officers who politely allowed them to finish their impromptu press conferences first. "We were ordered to arrest all the party leaders," admitted one police officer after he helped shove the party's information secretary, Ahsan Iqbal, roughly into a truck. When asked why, he just shrugged...
These firms face little of the interest-rate risk that bedeviled S&Ls. And they can shove most of the credit risk--the chance that a loan will go bad--onto the buyers of their mortgages. As a result, investors were initially willing to purchase only the lowest-risk loans--the good-credit, 20%-down variety. Fannie and Freddie still do that because they're required to by law. But in the past few years, private investors looking for higher returns began pouring money into iffier loans, underestimating the danger...
...MATTER THEIR IQS, THESE ARE STILL KIDS on the rocky promontory of adolescence. Hormones crackle; tempers rise. The boys shove; the girls gossip; a kid hits another kid during volleyball. "They are O.K. with the team sports, but this is a group that really loves the individual sports--the rock climbing was a big hit," says Kathy Dohr, the gym teacher. You do get the sense sometimes that the Davidson students are alone together. An older boy who says he was beaten up at other schools told me, "I can't say I have many friends here...
...such statements of principle, however, some Democrats have complained that Specter is more talk than action; when push comes to shove he'll toe the party line. Specter disputes this, pointing to his willingness to subpoena Bush's top political aide Karl Rove and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers over the firing of U.S. Attorneys last year. Bush invoked executive privilege and neither of the two appeared before the committee. Specter has suggested the Senate could hold a special contempt trial if the executive privilege standoff continues...