Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...France, O'Connor, a twice-married mother of two, told the London newspaper the Mirror that she would like to get hitched again, but will wait "at least six months" before sleeping with her intended. Apparently the woman now known as Mother Bernadette Mary O'Connor also didn't know that priestly marriage and sex are frowned on by Catholics as well...
...deep issue I want to touch upon has to do with me and my colleagues--journalists who, for all our recurrent, usually unattractive displays of know-it-all confidence, occasionally come upon a story such as yours and recognize our helplessness before it. Most honest journalists will admit that they never really understand the events they attempt to organize and clarify, and that more often than not it makes a "better story," one that comes closer to the truth, to swim around in the mystery of things...
...York abstractionist producing ideal geometries in the early 1940s. "We all steal," said Arshile Gorky to Ilya Bolotowsky. "You steal from Cahiers d'Art [a French art magazine of the '30s]; I steal from Cahiers d'Art. The only difference is I steal better than you, because I know French and you don't!" The very American twist on this story was that Gorky didn't actually know any more French than Bolotowsky...
...Cinemax next month) and Kate Moss. She's single and dating now and then, even though she finds American men somewhat inscrutable: "Men are wonderfully upfront here. But you go out, you have a lovely time, you're asked a lot of questions, and you don't know if the guy's ever going to call again." Following her nightly performances on Broadway, Friel often goes to a divey neighborhood bar, where she has been learning to swing dance. We suspect that she doesn't run into Dame Judi Dench or Kate Winslet there...
...travesty is that jumbo borrowers have a lower delinquency rate, and on that basis deserve a lower, not higher, mortgage rate. Other considerations muddy this analysis. But people who know about these things pretty much agree that credit risk plays virtually no role in setting the jumbo premium, which typically runs .25 to .5 percentage point above nonjumbo loans. That premium is the result of financing advantages enjoyed by Fannie and Freddie, who pass along lower costs to nonjumbo borrowers. The problem with this stealth socialism is that it does not take hot markets into account. The breakpoint should...