Word: plainly
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...looking at devices like a reverse auction, where holders of bad loans will compete to sell them to Treasury at the lowest cost to taxpayers. And he has to figure out how to extract from sellers not just complex debt vehicles like mortgage-backed securities but also plain old faltering home loans with local banks, without vacuuming up every loan in the country. If these approaches don't work, Kashkari and the rest of Paulson's team will need a Plan B. And fast. It's a tough assignment for a temp...
...This system was designed for plain vanilla loans, and we were trying to push chocolate sundaes through the gears.' MARC GOTT, former director in Fannie Mae's loan-servicing department, explaining the company's collapse...
...Perhaps it's the memory of slavery, or the legacy of the civil rights movement, or the need to be politically correct, or just plain politeness, but most Americans, particularly whites, are relatively restrained in word and deed about race. Most Asians are uninhibited about it. Asia's vast ethnic diversity means we are forced to confront the very many real differences - cultural, political, economic - that exist among us. Sometimes those differences erupt in violence. At least half of the world's armed conflicts are in Asia, nearly all ethnic-based. But the bigger reason Asians do not focus...
...practice "psycho journalism" with this book. What's the difference between that and just a plain old biography?Psychologists have never done investigative journalism when they've written these biographies. Their books are always based on records or things they could research in a library. I actually went to Arkansas and Ireland and Africa and really chased down the story of who this guy is by interviewing lots of people-4,000 pages of interviews. I really wanted to take my skills as a psychologist but go out and actually get original material...
...just smashing the thing, Brooklyn duo High Places have found an actual use for one. On their self-titled debut album, High Places layer cross-cultural melodies over naturalistic soundscapes (think rainforest) with surprising success. At first, it may sound like a mess—discombobulated, slapdash, and just plain weird. But High Places aren’t just some randoms who decided to combine their love of global ethnic music with their snoozing troubles. Behind the ambience and space, the music is actually quite complex and sophisticated, especially given the band’s make...