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Still, there's no denying that a sharp rise in rates would pose problems for the housing market, as would continued job cutting in an economy that is failing to pick up steam or, possibly, a deeper scandal at embattled mortgage firm Freddie Mac. Here are three ways to prepare for a bust...
...mail, outgoing Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 offered his advice as a computer science professor: “Use a Mac. There are too few of them for people to bother writing viruses...
...Martha Stewart, it was a tough week. Her friend and former Imclone Chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to prison for insider trading. For us, keeping track of the growing roster of scandal-plagued corporate execs has become a dizzying task. Be honest: Did you even know that Freddie Mac was a company and not a government agency? A cheat sheet. --By Kate Novack...
What does it mean when a company under criminal investigation sweeps out three top executives but only one is fired? That happened last week at Freddie Mac, the giant government-chartered mortgage company whose board grew impatient with management's internal probe of accounting irregularities that surfaced in January. Freddie Mac's president, David Glenn, was terminated, but the former chief financial officer, Vaughn Clarke, merely resigned and the former CEO, Leland Brendsel, retired at 61. The varying nature of their departures has grabbed the attention of Republican Congressman Richard Baker, who chairs a House financial-services subcommittee. Sources tell...
...views Dad," Peter suggested, "turn on the TV." Since the advent of television, parenting has been a staple of prime time; during my childhood, I regularly found patriarchal paragons across the dial - from "Father Knows Best" to "Little House on the Prairie" to the Cos. This year, comedian Bernie Mac would be the obvious choice as TV's favorite dad. His show has a bold spin (he plays a childless husband who takes in his sister's kids while she's in rehab), and the ratings are strong. My trouble with Bernie, though, is his kidside manner. "I'm gonna...