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...That's why on Feb. 2, a group of 15 state attorneys general and banking regulators sent a letter to the OCC and OTS complaining that its data was muddying the public debate and begging for details about the modifications it tracks. "People are concerned about the effectiveness of loan modifications, which is very troubling to us," says Iowa attorney general Tom Miller, who has been dealing with servicers as head of the 17-month-old State Foreclosure Prevention Working Group. "If they're bad modifications and people default at a higher rate, it's not surprising. But that shouldn...
...letter sent to the SEAS community in December, Spaepen outlined the School’s plans for dealing with the economic downturn, including an immediate cut of $1 million of unrestricted expenses for the current academic year...
Reinharz issued his letter after receiving one signed by more than 60 faculty members complaining that they had not been consulted on the future of the Rose and urging him to suspend any decisions on the matter. Last week a group of Brandeis students also staged a sit-in to protest the closing...
...caught up in the ethos that information wants to be free. Others smarter than we were had avoided that trap. For example, when Bill Gates noticed in 1976 that hobbyists were freely sharing Altair BASIC, a code he and his colleagues had written, he sent an open letter to members of the Homebrew Computer Club telling them to stop. "One thing you do is prevent good software from being written," he railed. "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing...
...Artists devised ingenious ways to work while under fire. Hyunh Phuong Dong perfected the technique of squeezing clumps of paint straight onto paper and adding black outlines later, once he was out of harm's way. "Their bombs cannot bury me," he wrote in a letter to his wife from the Mekong Delta. "I can still work, paint, sing and write to you." Another artist, Pham Thanh Tam, filled empty penicillin vials with paint, which he stored inside Russian-made 12-mm shell casings so that they wouldn't break...