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...Oscar show needs fixing - everyone agrees on that. Ratings for the Motion Picture Academy's annual rite of self-congratulation have fallen more than 40% in the past decade, from 1998, when Titanic was named Best Picture, to 2008, when No Country for Old Men won. What for ages was the year's most watched entertainment program is now just another awards show...
...pardons have fallen by the wayside in the past few decades, but they're being revived in conjunction with a new emphasis on the importance of charity in Christian life. Catholicism, with 67 million followers in the U.S., is big on formulaic repetition of the Hail Mary and "Our Father" variety. But the Vatican is starting to move away from that and toward, according to the church's Manual of Indulgences, a "greater zeal for the exercise of charity...
...option adjustable-rate mortgages (option ARMs). These loans, typically made to borrowers with prime or near-prime credit scores, let soon-to-be homeowners pick from a menu of monthly payments - often including an option that didn't even keep up with the interest due. As home prices have fallen, the number of option ARM borrowers running into trouble has surged, with 15.25% of loans delinquent and another 7.46% in foreclosure. Some analysts think the problem in option ARMs could eventually rival the size of the subprime meltdown. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...you’ve still got the acrid taste in your mouth from when gasoline prices were at an all-time high or you’ve fallen victim to a housing “crunch,” the Hasty Pudding Theatricals can offer you laughs (and maybe hope) in the plight of diminutive demigod Hugh Bris (Daniel V. Kroop ’10), the pocket-protected protagonist of their 161st performance, “Acropolis Now.” Though it may not be the high-brow piece of musical mastery that one might typically expect to witness...
Most of the publicly-broadcasted opinion from the economics department has fallen on the conservative side, opposing the stimulus plan on the basis of economic theory...