Word: elizabeth
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...Elizabeth Warren, a law school professor and expert on bankruptcy and commercial law, was an audience favorite with her colloquialized version of the crisis. In her comments, Warren labeled subprime mortgages “35 cent bananas” that should have been priced at 15 cents, said homeowners had tapped the equity value of their homes with a “sledgehammer,” and described the housing bubble as being rife with “crazy money, free money, we’ll-pay-you-to-take-our-money money...
...longer conversation,” he said. “These larger transportation challenges will certainly be addressed in due time, and nothing is off the table from the point of view of both short and long-term planning.” After Harvard representatives presented, resident Elizabeth Browne said that she was worried that the University’s additions to the neighborhood would benefit only parts of Allston. “Harvard students and staff are not the only ones who are coming in and out of the neighborhood,” she said...
...we’ve got more great players who will be traveling for future tournaments.” Next week the team will rest before traveling to New Haven, Conn. for the MacDonald Cup on the first weekend of October. —Staff writer Elizabeth A. Joyce can be reached at eajoyce@fas.harvard.edu...
Greenberg's daughter lost her mind. Elizabeth McCracken's son never had time to find his. He died in her womb when she was nine months pregnant. There can be few grimmer topics for a book than a stillborn baby, but I'll say this for McCracken's memoir, the unwieldily titled An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (Little, Brown; 192 pages): it's the funniest book about a dead baby that you will ever read...
...Speaking to more than 500 journalists at a Democratic campaign event in April, Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, said John McCain's healthcare proposals were like "painting lipstick on a pig." It looked good on the surface, Edwards said, but underneath it was a mess...