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Such favored treatment for the customers of big banks was a heated issue last week, as consumers and politicians braced for a possible wave of new banking failures. "The situation is patently unfair -- just plain wrong," said Henry Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat who heads the House Banking Committee. Concurred John Jacob, president of the National Urban League, which lost more than $200,000 at Freedom National because of the government's double standard: "I think it is grossly discriminatory against banks that happen to be small." Amid the outcry, the FDIC said it was reviewing its policy at Freedom National...
...aren't there thousands of people out here?" asked Daniel Solomon, a protester from Jamaica Plain...
Sometimes the record industry's deception tactics are just plain necessary. After all, could anyone picture true rap connoisseurs giving a chance to a rich Caucasian from Dallas with his title track "Winkle, Winkle, Baby...
...presentation of the evidence. The draft's release was reportedly delayed at the request of Allan Bromley, President Bush's science adviser, who asked that it be reviewed by another scientific panel and prefaced with a statement that qualifies the conclusions. In an interview with TIME, Bromley made it plain that he believes the EPA's findings of a "positive association" between electromagnetic fields and childhood cancer are "quite incorrect." "There's no scientific basis for that statement at all," says Bromley. "What we're doing is unnecessarily frightening millions of parents...
...women's studies, Black studies, gay studies and the like--and every modish interpretive gambit--deconstruction, poststructuralism, new historicism, and other varieties of... `Left Eclecticism'--has found a welcome roost in the academy, while the traditional curriculum and modes of intellectual inquiry are excoriated as sexist, racist, or just plain reactionary...