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...Mae Bunagan ’06 said she will take advantage of the service when she moves from Wigglesworth Hall to Mather House...
...Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!" a hatcheck girl says to Mae West, who purrs, "Goodness had nothin' to do with it, dearie." That line, from West's 1932 Night After Night, embodied the saucy spirit of early talkies. Now that Hollywood could speak, it did so in the tart cadences of fast-talking men and faster women. This freedom created fresh stars (James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Harlow) and a sexual impudence that riled the burghers of propriety...
...Thailand has made various attempts to play down, and then clamp down on, the sex and drugs that have titillated and lured the wrong kind of visitors?but to no avail. The newest approach is a mingling of high and low culture in Chiang Rai province's royally sponsored Mae Fah Luang Foundation's Hall of Opium. There is a certain brilliance to marketing the infamy of the Golden Triangle. This is one of those rare nether regions that lives up to the swashbuckling image that its name evokes. Highways crisscrossing Chiang Rai province are still frequently bottlenecked by police...
...ethics, ratings agencies are rushing to tell who's naughty and nice. But individual investors won't be seeing frank assessments anytime soon. Of the Big Three ratings agencies, only Standard & Poor's offers governance scores--and only to the company being graded. So far, only one firm, Fannie Mae, has elected to publish its--surprise!--nice, high number (9.0 out of 10). Access to detailed ratings for S&P 500 firms on governancemetrics.com costs at least $18,000 a year--too steep for John Q. Public, but several institutional investment firms have ponied up. Management & Excellence, a start...
...from lender to lender. So you don't have to shop or dicker. Exceptions include origination fees, which may be as high as 2% of loan value, and servicing fees, generally around $30 or so a month. Non-FHA reverse mortgages with higher loan limits are available from Fannie Mae (the Homekeeper Loan, up to $322,000). Just remember that a reverse mortgage is only for people with compelling reasons to stay in their current home...