Word: crackly
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Some athletes started their college careers at Harvard, unremarkably, before thriving elsewhere. Much has been made of Andrew Hatch, a quarterback who couldn’t crack the top of the Harvard depth chart as a freshman and is now starting for the No. 5 LSU Tigers. Similarly, Zach Putchel and Shay Doron brought their basketball skills to larger campuses, Minnesota and Maryland, respectively, after beginning in Cambridge...
...running mate has damaged her credibility and standing. Most recently the shifting public explanations for why Monegan was fired have looked shaky - at one point, it was that they didn't share the same general law enforcement priorities, at another it was that he hadn't done enough to crack down on rural bootlegging, and most recently it was for his unauthorized travel to Washington to lobby for federal dollars. After many Democrats complained that the McCain campaign appeared to be trying to run out the clock on the investigation, the campaign's announcement that Palin would work with...
...genre they founded has lived on, and each decade has given it a different period savor. The 1990s produced slacker crack-ups like Girl, Interrupted and Prozac Nation. Now, in the 2000s, we have Hurry Down Sunshine (Other Press; 234 pages), Michael Greenberg's account of his daughter Sally's psychotic break, which she experienced at the tragically precocious...
...system of securitization and derivatives, which took over many of the responsibilities of banks but was not subjected to the same kind of risk controls or oversight. This process began in the 1970s, as the rigid New Deal approach of segmenting financial institutions into narrowly defined boxes began to crack under the pressure of inflation, globalization and floating exchange rates. The money market mutual fund, invented in 1971 as a way to get around federal limits on savings-account interest rates, was among the first of many innovations that undermined the old ways...
...even on non-banks, which it finally did earlier this year - banning, among other things, the making of loans "without regard to borrowers' ability to repay the loan from income and assets other than the home's value." Greenspan, though, rejected pleas from his Fed colleague Edward Gramlich to crack down earlier...