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...that the credit crunch is rolling full-tilt into the real economy, even credit unions with the benefit of geography likely won't be able to escape the effects of recession. At the 66,000-member Unitus Community Credit Union in Portland, Ore., loan volume is up this year in nearly every category - 32% in mortgages, 37% in student loans, 12% in credit cards - but so are delinquencies. Since the beginning of the year, late payments have increased from...
Romance, of course, often leads to trouble: In November 2007, a plane bound for Vegas from Seattle had to be diverted to Portland to eject a persistently amorous couple who refused to disengage. That same year, actor Ralph Fiennes had an infamous mid-air collision with a flight attendant in the lavatory of a Qantas flight to India, costing the latter her job and the former his dignity...
...drink—as well as the more charitable-minded work—Oktoberfest also featured a musical selection, including simultaneous performances from six stages across the Square.The Mass. Ave. main stage offered performances by rock bands, a hip-hop funk band and an alternative, psychedelic marching band from Portland. Club Passim showcased the club’s newest discoveries of singer-songwriters, while the Holyoke Center stage offered passers-by live jazz. Tthe HONK! Festival Parade, which ran from Davis Square to Harvard, featured 24 street bands hailing from across the country as well as Canada and Italy.Student musical...
...process is much more emotional. In some cases, the judges respond to the reality of the story; in other cases, they respond to really great writing." The winner of the July grand prize, as well as of category prizes in both July and October, was a letter carrier from Portland, Ore., named Murr Brewster, whose folksy commentary on low-rise jeans and other fashion trends won in "Style+Beauty+Body." (An excerpt: "rolling cumulonimbus mounds of flesh were thundering out of pants all over town. Everywhere I looked, girls were celebrating physiques of the sort that once ignited the muumuu...
Legality aside, do you think that it's fair for athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs? Julien Deveraux PORTLAND...