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...homeownership rate to 69% from 44% during World War II. In recent years, the mortgage deduction hasn't just helped folks get into a house, it has given them the most valuable tool for managing their finances since the piggy bank: tax-deductible home-equity loans and lines of credit. Just try to find a rate on a credit card or construction loan that, after adjusting for taxes, comes to around 4%, as it does with home-equity borrowing. People have been tapping into this low-cost source of funds for college tuition, vacations and other spending that bailed...
Since the new iPod is 30% thinner, people will have enough room in their pockets for a couple more credit cards to buy even more frivolous stuff...
...general trend in news to pander to emotion, to value graphics over thinking, gut over brain. "That, I think, is the nutmeat of the show," he tells me. "Enough mind. We tried mind for a long time, and what has it gotten us? You know, except for vaccinations." Credit Colbert's gut or his head for The Colbert Report, but his pontificating deserves a standing bloviation...
...chance.”That chance, a starting spot at the weak safety position, came thanks to an injury to junior safety Danny Tanner. Balkema stepped in to join a defense which, considering the accomplishments of a number of offensive stars, doesn’t usually get as much credit as a team with the most sacks in the league might deserve.“We only get credit when we do something wrong, so for me personally, I don’t mind not getting a lot of credit,” Balkema says. “Because...
...Wright lets his imagination run wild even outside the confines of the two chapters his note explicitly mentions.Chapter 3 presents a partially fictionalized encounter between two Harvard boys circa 1919 that culminates in a “night of lovemaking.” (To Wright’s credit, a few details of the dalliance are derived from the court records.) Chapter 7, meanwhile, is a vignette of a racy soiree in Roberts’ room. But even in chapter 4, the meaty rendering of the tribunal’s proceedings, Wright continues to play fast and loose with...