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...situation with student loans doesn't break down quite as neatly. Since the summer of 2007, 137 lenders have stopped funding federal loans, and 33 have suspended private programs, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and other financial aid websites. Part of that had to do with a cut in federal subsidies, but part was directly related to the credit crunch - issuers that pulled out tended to be those that packaged and resold loans, a market that has evaporated...
...down, a 44.4 percent clip, double the percentage that opponents converted last season. Holy Cross had less success against the Crimson in the season opener, going just 3-for-14. Harvard allowed just 31 third-down conversions all season in 2007, including holding Brown to a 1-for-12 mark in last year’s 24-17 victory. “There were a couple of third down plays that we had to make a play, and we didn’t, and…[it] extended the drive for them,” sophomore safety Collin Zych said...
...Gino Gordon—competing for the top spot, and a front seven that is best in the Ivies. But having lost cornerback Steven Williams ’08—and his league-leading eight picks last season—to graduation, the secondary remains the one question mark on an otherwise solid squad.“You can’t just replace the guys that we have to replace, Steven Williams as a starting point,” Murphy says. “The question mark and the concern is not going to be quality, I think...
...debate theater to stage one of their typical demonstrations - which include fiery speeches and a cross burning - for fear of causing riots. "We don't want anybody to get hurt," says Greene, who insists physical violence is no longer part of the Klan way of doing things. But Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, which studies hate groups and extremism in America, disagrees: "That's hogwash," he says, citing a lawsuit under way against a different Klan branch, the Imperial Klans of America, for allegedly assaulting a teenager at a county fair in Kentucky...
...Overall grade: B- (Read Mark Halperin's take on Barack Obama's performance...