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...COBURN, Republican Senator from Oklahoma, during a hearing with former executives of Washington Mutual. The Senate panel found that the company--the largest bank in U.S. history to fail--made loans it knew would be difficult to repay...
...managed to get up off the start,” captain Martin Eiermann said. “[Navy] made a move around the 500-meter mark, and we knew to be cool and stay calm while they made their move and not let it rattle us. But then afterwards, we knew to push back into them...
...Some guys who played well throughout the season just didn’t have their best week,” sophomore Tony Grillo said. “It’s unfortunate, especially because we knew that we could win, seeing as the team that did win, [Columbia], we crushed a couple weeks ago [at the Princeton Invitational...
Janie said that while part of her knew she was being irrational, she clung to this reasoning in an attempt to make sense of things. She tried to rationalize her emotions, and became overcome by negativity and self-doubt. During this depressive episode, her supportive family was a lifeline. At the time, Janie felt wracked by guilt...
...legend, but I could never get my grandfather to elaborate on it—I don’t know if it was painful or just generational to only talk about. Just being interested in my family made [these legends] irresistible to me. Just describing the facts as I knew them took up about half a page, so I had to fill in and imagine. It just unfolded from there. But I had no interest whatsoever in writing an autobiographical novel. I’m not that interested in myself...