Word: borrowers
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More than a million homeowners overpaying on their mortgages could soon get a windfall. The rebate stems from private mortgage insurance, which lenders require if you borrow more than 80% on a home. Yet many people keep paying the $50 to $150 a month even after their equity has reached 20%. Bills now before Congress would force the private firms to stop the unnecessary charges. But don't wait: check your equity statements...
Outing Club members stress that the purpose of the club is to get students out of their dorms and into the wilderness. To help facilitate this, the organization boasts a huge collection of outdoor gear that members can borrow freely. Dues are only $10 a year and membership comes with unlimited access to astockpile of gear, including everything fromcanoes and kayaks to backpacks and skis...
...before Mather was a home for "steroids" it was a "house for science and math nerds. In fact, Mather house used to be a haven for humanities concentrators and, in particular, homosexual humanities concentrators. I do not remember seeing more than a handful of "science and math nerds" (to borrow the author's phrase) in Mather during my undergraduate years. This lack of research on the part of a senior editor and The Crimson in general leads me to think that a dark spot in Harvard's history's--namely, the persecution of homosexuals in Mather House by male athletes...
Inevitably, Brother Bill, whose small stipend of $20,000 is funded by the nonprofit Catholic Charities, has his critics. But not many. Some say he goes too easy on gangsters who recount their murderous acts to him without fear of betrayal, who borrow money from him and never pay him back, who curse, smoke and drink around him as if he were one of them. "He gives all his attention to the wrong people," gripes a Cabrini resident...
...remain magnificently flawless only for as long as they are unfulfilled. Ben-Gurion always wanted Israel to become a "Light unto the Nations," an exemplary polity abiding by the highest moral standards. He himself, and his Israel, could hardly live up to such expectations. But he was, to borrow a literary term, a fantastic realist who gave his people an elemental, Old Testament leadership during the most fateful half-century in their history...