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...draws its fan base of lacrosse enthusiasts and team members not with media hype, but for a simple reason—the league offers a chance to stay connected to an increasingly popular high school and collegiate sport (Note: Blazers games are probably your best chance to see former laxer Bill Belichick in person. He busts out his “nice” grey baggy sweaters on Saturday nights...
...main reason for the boom's doom was that in the nation's San Diegos, double-digit annual price increases put most homes out of the reach of middle-income buyers. The mortgage industry and its funders on Wall Street responded with laxer lending standards and creative loans (no downpayment, teaser rate, interest only, etc.) that really made sense for borrowers only if prices kept going up and they could sell at a profit or refinance. When prices stopped rising last year, the edifice began to crumble...
...attacks have cast the piercing light of public scrutiny on a mission that was approved with little attention and almost no debate, and some Canadians have begun to wonder whether the effort is worth it. "Canada should pull its troops out," York University professor James Laxer wrote in a commentary in the Globe and Mail last week, arguing that Canadians "are not engaged in peacekeeping" but participating in a war aimed at establishing U.S. "hegemony" in that part of the world...
...Communist Party bureaucracy, however, doesn't seem to have caught up with the new law. Despite laxer regulation, the career advancement of local leaders, especially in rural areas, still often depends on keeping birthrates low. "One set of bad population figures can stop an official from getting promoted," says Tu Bisheng, a Beijing legal activist who has helped document abuses related to the one-child policy...
...schools like Yale, Dartmouth, and Cornell, undergraduates usually fill the role of residential adviser, a difference that invariably lends itself to a laxer attitude towards drinking and a less paternalistic attitude than the one that can permeate first-year life at Harvard...