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...worth. Most other banks have only been willing to lower interest rates. Writing down loan balances for such "underwater" homeowners, while costly for the bank, gives borrowers more incentive to stay current on their mortgage. The Bank of America program, which has won praise from consumer advocates, could help as many as 45,000 borrowers reduce what they owe by $3 billion. "Bank of America is to be commended for launching a program to reduce principal balances on loans that are underwater," said John Taylor, head of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition of Bank of America's program shortly after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BofA's CEO: How to Win Friends and Influence People | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...that we're raised with. No matter what [a boy's] genes are, we need to be laying out good role models for how one behaves in one's life. I feel very strongly: this is not an excuse for men to behave badly. But it is something to help men have a deeper insight into themselves, and women to have a deeper insight into men. (See five paths to understanding the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Male Brain: More Complex Than You Think | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Hopefully gestures like the MFA’s inclusion of Mesoamerican and Native American works in an art museum alongside the works of Gilbert Stuart and John Singleton Copley will help illustrate that these marginalized cultures do indeed merit appreciation and that the European masters are not the only artists entitled to aesthetic consideration. At the very least, it will present the viewer with the opportunity to experience the art of civilizations whose cultural output is traditionally relegated to the ethnography museum in order to permit an honest comparison...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Artifacts Take Their Rightful Place as Art | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...concentrator Julia A. F. Rooney ’11, who plans to create a body of paintings on the subject of Italian cities for her thesis, said that having a thesis advisor with whom she had worked before would help her to channel “conflicting and contradictory voices” into a coherent project...

Author: By James K. Mcauley and Julia L Ryan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: VES Department Creates New Painting Professorship | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...ever-dependable Craig Ferguson, who voices Hiccup’s mentor Gobber, a character who says everything mentor characters are never supposed to say in movies, thus providing some of the film’s best laughs. At one point, when Hiccup complains how he can’t help that he wasn’t born with the beefy physique of his father, Gobber helpfully explains “It’s not what’s outside that he dislikes—it’s what’s inside he can’t stand...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Train Your Dragon | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

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