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...first proposal dealt with how the Carpenter Center is meant to interface with students. I thought, could I do a piece that would circle around all those interests the fact that the student population is very important to this community, as is archive life?I wanted to collect saliva from students of color and urine samples from the white students, to display them, and to let them age over time to see what kinds of information—just by looking at them visually—could they tell us about these populations. But of course we ran into legal...
Under the new plan, servicers, the companies that collect mortgage checks, will be paid $1,000 every time they cut the interest rate on a loan to reduce the monthly payment to no more than 38% of a borrower's gross income. The government will split the cost of reducing the debt-to-income ratio further than that, down to 31%. Both servicers and borrowers will be paid up to $1,000 a year (for three and five years, respectively) for keeping the loan current...
...Bergé moved out of the Rue de Babylone apartment 20 years ago, though the pair continued to collect together. The entire collection was bequeathed to Bergé when Saint Laurent died, and he knew almost right away that he would sell it all, with the proceeds - estimated to top $250 million - destined for AIDS research and a Saint Laurent museum. "Since Yves died, the collection has lost its sense," says Berg...
...short on her first shot. “The free throw was so unlike her,” Tay said. “She’ll probably not miss another one for the rest of the year.”Berry, though, was able to collect herself and hit the second to pull Harvard to within one.Knowing that it needed a stop, the Crimson stood strong on the defensive end of the floor, forcing a bad Lions miss. However, Columbia grabbed the offensive board and was able to call timeout with five seconds left on the shot clock.Off...
...Nearby is the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, a modern, multi-media complex that houses one of the best collections of Lincoln materials in the world. As Illinois State Historian Thomas Schwartz explained to me recently, Springfield had the good fortune to have a Lincoln buff serving as governor during the Great Depression. He budgeted for acquisitions at a time when prices were low. "We were able to collect material at a time when there was not much interest and not much money...