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When she resigned last year as deputy attorney general to become vice chair at the Fannie Mae Corporation, Gorelick says she made a conscious decision to switch gears in her career...
This year's Marathon is not only a time for personal reflection and Dionysian pleasure, but also for historical perspective. There is particular significance to running this year's marathon as women. We will follow in the literal footsteps of women like Kathrine Switzer, fellow Cantabridgian Sara Mae Berman and Joan Benoit who were among the first women to run Boston's course. While Nina Kuscsik of Huntington, N.Y. won the first official women's marathon in 1972, Switzer, Berman and Benoit stand out as three female pioneers. In 1967, Switzer, a Syracuse University student, applied for a race...
...first glance of the program, to take the concert seriously at all, filled as it was with popular, nearly cliched pieces; such a program qualifies as musical overindulgence. Yet, in their concert on Sunday, the Handel & Haydn Society gave a spectacular performance, only confirming the words of Mae West: "Too much of a good thing is wonderful...
...dollars, first as a partner doing municipal finance at the manhattan investment house lazard freres. when the travel for that job became too much for a man with a young family, he accepted an offer to become vice chairman of the federal national mortgage association, known as fannie mae, the nation's largest investor in home mortgages. his family's rocky beginnings, he says, "have a way of focusing your attention on making sure that you'll be economically successful, because you remember when you weren't." yet economic security has never insulated raines from the realities of race...
...true that a credible plan for balancing the budget might lead to lower interest rates, helping anybody who borrows to buy a car or house. Fannie Mae estimates families might save $100 a month on each $100,000 borrowed. A strong case could be made, too, that adopting the recommendations of the Boskin Commission would spread the pain of balancing the budget as widely and mildly as possible. The elderly would still have their Social Security pensions raised next year, though by an average $13 a month rather than $21. A median family of four would pay $37 in extra...