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...heard, of course, that subprime mortgages - subprime is Wall Street's euphemism for junk - are where the problems started. That's true, but the problems have now spread way beyond them. Those predicting that the housing hiccup wouldn't be a big deal - what's a few hundred billion in crummy mortgage loans compared with a $13 trillion U.S. economy or a $54 trillion world economy? - failed to grasp that possibility. It turned out that Wall Street's greed - and by Wall Street, we mean the world of money and investments, not a geographic area in downtown Manhattan - was supplemented...
...Solartaxi idea was born when Palmer first heard of global warming and the petroleum crisis as a 14-year-old. He dreamt of finding a way to travel and “enjoy the beauty of the world without polluting...
...older. “I’m glad we didn’t violate the fire code, because Peter Shields was so hot,” commented Keyster Robert P. Ciofani ’09. Shouts of “Petros! Petros!” could be heard even during the announcements asking the freshmen to stop dancing on the tables (the lone HUPD officer could only wave his flashlight at them) and stay away from the area behind the DJ booth. But Shields wasn’t the only center of attention. At one point in the evening...
...McCain's lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless assault on his opponent's character and policies, featuring a consistent-and witting-disdain for the truth. Even after 38 million Americans heard Obama say in his speech at the Democratic National Convention that he was open to offshore oil-drilling and building new nuclear-power plants, McCain flatly said in his acceptance speech that Obama opposed both. Normal political practice would be for McCain to say, "Obama says he's 'open to' offshore...
...clichéd as it sounds, there are voices struggling to be heard. One is the voice of blacks in the Americas, who still want to know why, that in the face of European violence, Africans sold other Africans. Others are professors in Ghana like Akosua Adoma Perbi, whose book, “A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana,” is a pioneering work. Most important are the voices of university students in Ghana who are breaking into uncharted territory by studying slavery and thereby shattering this taboo...