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...incentives are in part the brainchild of Jim Burnstein, a screenwriter who teaches in the University of Michigan's Film and Video Studies Program. He grew tired of watching his students decamp for New York City and Los Angeles on graduation. The Michigan Film Commission, of which Burnstein is a member, had been "looking into how to attract Hollywood," he says. "But this wasn't just about bringing money into the state. It was a matter of the taxpayers we were already losing." Tena Constas is one of those prodigal Michiganders, a location scout for Betty Anne Waters who recently...
...Washington Shelter for Homeowners The U.S. Treasury Department announced an expansion of the Obama Administration's Making Home Affordable housing program, aimed at helping struggling homeowners manage their mortgage payments. The new provisions offer cash incentives of $500 up front and up to $250 a year--as long as the loan remains current--to lenders who are willing to reduce balances, plus $250 a year for borrowers who make payments on time. In response to complaints that the initial plan did not provide enough help to homeowners underwater on "piggyback" second mortgages, the new initiative would also cut interest rates...
Last week the nation’s second-largest athletic program acknowledged that the recession had dealt it a devastating blow. MIT, proud former promoter of 41 varsity sports ranging from the mainstream to the obscure (the Engineers sported one of the best air pistol squads in the country), cut eight of its teams, including alpine skiing, men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s gymnastics, golf, pistol, and wrestling...
...auditorium. Citing age distribution projections, McGahan said that the global hunger situation would likely be exacerbated in the future as resources are diverted towards growing masses of wealthy elderly and away from impoverished regions elsewhere. Richard Leach, senior advisor for public policy at the Friends of the World Food Program, a United Nations humanitarian organization that combats hunger, praised the students in the audience for demonstrating their interest in global health. Leach commended the strides the United States has made in assisting impoverished nations, but warned that “progress is being threatened” by a lack...
...ball.“I got some great advice from a high school baseball coach,” he says, “which was to pick your college as if baseball doesn’t exist there.”With this in mind, Kantrovitz looked for a program that could cater to his interests, academic as well as athletic. Harvard appeared to be such a place, and he visited the school hoping to see if it would be a good fit.“I didn’t know much about Kantrovitz,” Harvard baseball...