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...Colonial made a lot of loans in the past few years to residential builders, particularly in Florida, many of which have now gone bad. As of the end of September, Colonial had $678 million in so-called nonperforming loans, which means the borrower is no longer paying interest. Fitch Ratings recently downgraded the bank to a credit rating of BBB-, which puts Colonial's debt just above junk. "From an overall capital perspective, they are all right, but Colonial is exposed to residential construction in problematic markets," says Fitch analyst Ken Ritz. "The risk profile of the company's loans...
...course, the children of wealthy parents don't always grow up to be self-indulgent, feckless adults, just as deprived children don't always become driven overachievers. But literature and media are stuffed with rich-kids-gone-bad stories, and there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that cosseted offspring can lack the thrift, independence, ambition, persistence and entrepreneurial spirit that contributed to their parents' success. Most people have heard of the "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves" curse, which holds that family wealth, once accumulated, is typically dissipated by the third generation because trust-fund babies, having little regard for the money that...
...from Karl Rove,’ and [Caleb’s mother] and I looked at each other and wondered ,” Steve C. Weatherl told me. Caleb had arranged for the Republican Club to bring Karl Rove to campus that April. The high-profile speaking event had gone very smoothly, but Rove had already written Caleb a thank-you note. When their son finally arrived home, they watched him open the letter. Caleb said that he had to read it a few times before he really understood what it was saying. Rove was looking for some additional help...
...wanted to have a type of tourism that really raised people's understanding," says founder Alfonso Martinez, who dresses in a ski mask and goes by the name Poncho. "So we decided to turn the painful experience all of us here have gone through into a kind of game that teaches something to our fellow Mexicans." Poncho and other ski-masked comrades play polleros, or chicken herders - the human smugglers who guide wannabe migrants over the deserts and rivers into the U.S. Having made the real journey dozens of times to work as a gardener in Nevada, Poncho is well...
...When you think of what German society has gone through, it is fascinating to see how their intellectual and social fervent ferments itself in the visual arts, ” Lentz said...