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...tumult at the top of financial markets has not filtered down evenly, but that doesn't mean it's not seeping. There are cracks on Main Street, but whether or not you see them largely depends on where you stand. Just ask anyone who wants to buy a house with a subprime mortgage - they're not all evil, but these days they are exceedingly rare - or with a jumbo loan, which now carries an average rate 1.2 percentage points above a regular mortgage. (In normal times, the spread is closer to a quarter of a percentage point.) "Some people...
Does that mean you're feeling the credit crunch? Maybe not. But it might be an indication that the cracks on Main Street are spreading...
...Aside from a glut of straight up banal sentences - "Biddinger's great talent, Billy knew, was that at any sudden moment he could drop his easy friendliness, let his dark eyes narrow into two slits like gun holes, and turn mean." (Slits like gun holes?) - one of Blum's three main characters, D.W. Griffith, doesn't even really belong in the book. Despite Blum's best efforts to incorporate the director, Griffith plays no part in the crime, investigation or subsequent court case. The book's epilogue, in which Griffith, Darrow, and Burns briefly walk by each other...
...going down.But for me, only three games mattered. Let’s approach from a communitarian perspective (big-ups to my man Michael Sandel, I know you’re reading this column, and I just want to say, you’re so enlightened, and stuff, like, I mean, wow, smart, and you’re modeled after Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, or the other way around, well, either way, you know what I’m talking about, right??). Mikey, correct me if I’m wrong, but it works from the inside-out: my friends...
...Brown coach Phil Estes said. “Sometimes it’s a little bit disbelief. You know you want to make sure it didn’t cross the goal line. You keep looking, was there a flag? You want to believe it all, I mean it wasn’t until the last snap [that I believed].”Harvard had just completed a 15-play, 75-yard drive that culminated in a 3-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Liam O’Hagan to an open Matt Luft in the back of the endzone...