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...effort to stem foreclosures and the depressed house prices they perpetuate entered a new phase on Tuesday as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced a fast-track program meant to make hundreds of thousands of mortgages affordable to people who can't currently meet their monthly payments. The roll-out follows on the heels of new loan modification programs at JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup, but the move at Fannie and Freddie, which together hold or guarantee some 58% of single-family home loans, has the potential to reach much farther since the mortgage industry often takes its cue from...
...Caleb Weatherl…he’s this sophomore,” the guy went on. “We’re friendly,” he added, “But we’re not friends.” I need to meet this Caleb guy, I thought. Of course, there was a catch. The more serious Caleb’s presidential ambitions were, the less likely he would be to admit them. It was one thing for freshmen to broadcast their big dreams on their Facebook profiles. Caleb was in a whole different category...
...over the cost of abortions, Caleb told participants to come down to the dining hall and talk to him. About 12 people showed up. These were all admirable qualities. But as I walked into Le Madeline, the Frenchified version of Au Bon Pain where I had agreed to meet Caleb for lunch, I steeled myself. I expected to find one of those alpha males with a Colgate smile and a chiseled jaw—the kind Dershowitz talked about, who looked in the mirror and thought, “presidential.” To my surprise, Caleb was a stocky...
...will not meet our cozy critical clique again. From here 2666 tacks abruptly sideways into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa, and who may be slowly going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It only becomes clear in Part 4 - "The Part about the Crimes" - that Bolaño is performing these lateral leaps the better to observe from all sides what the reader only gradually recognizes as the book's true subject...
...speed-dating event hosted by the Radcliffe Union of Students last night, 32 undergraduates dated every other participant for as long as the kitchen timer allowed them to. But as soon as it chimed three minutes, students shifted down a seat to meet their next potential special someone across makeshift tables adorned with long-stemmed carnations...