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...staff had some concerns, so we bought a loan-performance database of mortgage-backed securities. We saw some pretty astonishing things. The starter rates were very high, between 7% and 9%, and within a couple of years they could jump by 600 basis points. No one could handle that level of payment shock. In fact nobody was - they were just refinancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: The FDIC's Boss on Banks, Loans and Credit | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...college, and especially Ivy League football, star players shine briefly in four year cycles and then leave for careers in business, law, and, rarely, professional football. Harvard coach Tim Murphy and his staff have kept the Crimson this good for this long by consistently recruiting new top-level talent to replace the squad’s existing batch of athletes...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Harvard Looks to Stay on Track | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

After the 1975 founding of the Radcliffe Pitches, an all-female counterpart to the Kroks, Harvard’s a cappella scene grew steadily. The current level of interest in joining an a cappella group has led to an audition season that at times amazes current members...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: La Famiglia A Capella | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...recites the amazing number of artists stored on his tiny digital media player (this classic love story is also a commercial), time revs forward through their courtship, wedding, children’s birthdays, and finally settles on the two of them with silver hair and bifocals.On the most superficial level, the spot simply advertises the tremendous storage capacity of Verizon’s latest phone. But what it’s really appealing to is one of our deepest, darkest, most neurotic obsessions: the playlist. “What’s on your playlist...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: Our Sonic Youth | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...home loan has jumped more than one half a percentage point to 6.74%, according to Bankrate.com. That might not sound like much, but it is the biggest one-week rise in the normally stable lending rate in 21 years. Some economists say mortgage rates could soon top 7%, a level they have not seen in more than six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bank Bailout's Side Effect: Rising Mortgage Costs | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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