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...book, you write about the fact that he had a cocaine habit. Cocaine was his mistress for the first 10 years of our marriage. To his credit, he went into rehab and got sober in 1988 and hasn't touched cocaine since...
...write about the fact that you forgave Amy after a while. That was something that took many, many years. I have to credit the Betty Ford Center, because I went there because of my dependency on painkillers and they were the ones who helped me peel off these layers of anger and gave me the tools to live with it and accept it and move on with my life...
...banks to burdens other financial firms won't bear. Products regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission would be exempt from CFPA oversight, as would most insurance companies, which are regulated by the states. And while the CFPA would have authority over anyone extending credit to consumers, the first line of regulation for nonbanks such as mortgage brokers and check-cashing firms would remain the states. American Bankers Association chief executive Edward Yingling argues that because of this, the playing field would still be tilted in favor of the nonbanks, and he may be right...
...proposed CFPA appears to be premised on the idea that Washington is better at making financial decisions for all Americans than leaving that choice up to individual Americans," said Spencer Bachus, the ranking Republican on the House Financial Services Committee - whose top five 2008 campaign donors were UBS, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, according to the Center for Responsive Politics...
Baraka is asked to evaluate Booker. "I give him credit. The homicide rate has gone down," says the poet. "But I don't know if you can judge the quality of life in a city by just the homicide rate. Where is the employment? Where is the education? What is in it for the residents...