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...example, thanks largely to Fed hikes, the average interest rate for a 30-year mortgage currently stands at 6.6%, according to Freddie Mac, up from 5.7% this time last year. Folks who have adjustable-rate mortgages tend to be especially hard hit, as payments balloon ? and more defaults follow. On the other hand, if you're a saver, you'll start seeing bigger interest payments on savings accounts, CDs and money markets. To be clear, though, no decision has yet been made about where rates are headed. This week's hoopla is all reaction to Bernanke's reading...
...scurrying to the right will probably find their jobs taken from them by identical-looking Republican challengers in a few years. Jimmy Carter lost because he failed to define how he differed from Reagan’s blatant appeal to human greed and senile values—others who follow in his path will follow him to political limbo. This election was a defeat for the half-baked party Carter hoped to forge, not for the party that Franklin Roosevelt did forge and the one that can emerge strong from this year. If 1980 becomes engraved in history books...
...good candidates. But searches for university presidents need the same background checks that ordinary corporate boards expect when hiring CEOs—even if leading candidates are considered known quantities. Secretive searches are vulnerable to undue influence by insiders and undue malice by gossipers.A good leader gets people to follow. Leadership is not simply having good ideas and then giving orders to execute them. Instead, a good leader makes people embrace and act on ideas as if they were their own. A healthy organization acts as a team, which in times of urgency or uncertainty relies on shared values...
...first big highlight was really the Windemere, when we beat Princeton right off the bat,” Orler said. “Then at the Knecht Cup, beating Princeton and Wisconsin, that was [another] high point for us. “We would have liked to follow up and do the same at the IRAs, but unfortunately the racing didn’t go as we’d hoped,” she added. After losing by nearly 10 seconds to Radcliffe at the Knecht, Wisconsin would have its revenge on the Black and White later...
...with times of 8.86 and 8.87, respectively. With the points from her victory, the Crimson finished fourth at the Ivy Championship meet with 60 points as a team. In the spring, Serdakowski won the 100-meter hurdles at the Yale dual meet to cap an impressive last season and follow through on the promise of her rookie campaign three years ago. —GABRIEL M. VELEZ