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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more to help struggling local homeowners revise their loans and hang on to their houses - and he wants to give his frustrations some legal teeth. Williams has proposed a city ordinance that could penalize banks that fail to offer modifications before starting foreclosure proceedings. Local governments have no formal legal oversight over banks, but under Williams' ordinance, if a lender's number of foreclosure actions in Miami Gardens over a designated period exceeds the number of loan modifications it offers to financially burdened or delinquent homeowners, the city would pull its accounts or other business from that bank. "The taxpayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How One City May Punish Banks for Foreclosures | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

Eliot House: 1. Where Unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62 spent his formative years. 2. Home of the Fête, the best formal at Harvard. 3. Its clock tower has probably had a better movie career than Matt Damon...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...Formal: 1. What you called a prom in high school. 2. House dances you’ll be attending in the spring (or the fall, if you get asked by that cute sophomore in section!) 3. Also known collectively as “The Balls...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...plop down in your seat on the first day of “First Nights” and the professor says, “Don’t worry, formal musical training is not a prerequisite for this course,” you know what to do. Go shop something that is in your wheelhouse, or risk getting academically mauled by the concert pianists sitting to your left and right...

Author: By The crimson superboard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How To Game Your Classes | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...boys, keep your ears peeled for get-togethers hosted at what we’ll call alternative venues: upperclassmen houses, party suites, the occasional dining hall. We’re willing to wager that more freshmen attended Heaven and Hell in Currier House on Halloween weekend than the freshman formal or First Chance Dance...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Navigating the Harvard Social Scene | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

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