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...Remember that, in 1931, the Wall Street crash had lately idled nearly a fifth of the work force and wonder that Ira Gershwin could have Wintergreen sing, in a perky love ballad, "Who cares what banks fail in Yonkers, / Long as you've got a kiss that conquers?" The Senators are less discreet: "If you think you've got depression, / Wait until we get in session, / And you'll find out what depression really means!" The reporters care not about The Issues; they pepper the Prez with questions only about his love life. "We don't want to know about...
Home foreclosures in the first quarter of 2006 were up 72% over a year earlier, according to a study by RealtyTrak Inc. of Irvine, Calif. And in such states as Alabama, Michigan and Missouri, a fifth of homeowners in the higher-interest subprime category of ARMS were at least 30 days late in making a mortgage payment at the end of 2005, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association...
...Committee will announce today that Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the hit television show “Family Guy,” will be the Class Day speaker this June, according to a senior close to the committee. The Class Committee returns a comedian to the podium for the fifth time in seven years. MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, which is also the setting of his cartoon show. The FOX network cancelled “Family Guy” in 2002, saying that the show had failed to garner consistently high ratings...
...squad will try and get through Syracuse on Sunday in order to face either Penn or Johns Hopkins in the second round of play, which is as far as it reached in its last tournament appearance in 1996. The selection is the team’s fifth overall...
Over 200 students attended PBHA’s fifth annual public service celebration in Lowell Dining Hall...