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...remembers that souring subprime loans kicked off the real estate meltdown, that's a scary thought. Recent analysis from Standard & Poor's (S&P) anticipates that a full 37.5% of such loans (dubbed option ARMs) that were written in 2007, at the height of lax lending, will eventually go bad. The kicker is that most option ARMs undergo payment spikes after five years, which means the brunt of the impact has yet to be felt. That will change in late 2010, delivering another blow to the fragile housing market just as it begins to regain strength...
...Cubs in Rookie of the Year. The Little Giants trailed the Cowboys by 21 points at halftime. The Mighty Ducks lost to the Hawks 17-0 before beating them to win the state championship. The Jamaicans finished last in the first heat of Cool Runnings (maybe a bad example because they ultimately lose, but who isn’t jacked up by these Winter Olympics...
...that game, the Quakers shot an abysmal 1-for-18 on three-pointers. This Penn team is playing with far more swagger now than in January, when it was 1-14. But Yale has also been playing well for the last month. The Bulldogs’ only bad league loss came at the start of conference play against Brown. The winner of this game will likely claim sole possession of fourth place in the Ivy. I give Yale the slight edge...
...Let’s say that you have a general surgeon who wants to learn minimally invasive techniques, a scenario that is commonly funded by outside interests,” he says. “Is that a bad thing? When someone gets training that they wouldn’t normally get and helps patients...
...like a sorority house—like, um, the Houses in Harry Potter. Without having to worry about grocery shopping or dividing up rent, Harvard students are able to devote almost all their energy to their academics and extracurriculars. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but the ability to incorporate Hegel and Foucault references into cocktail conversations and juggle 10 activities at a time doesn’t make you any more mature than your were in high school. Elite liberal arts colleges like this one produce intellectually sophisticated and highly accomplished individuals, but many...