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...good chunk of the FHA's portfolio, though - nearly 40% - is made up of loans written over the past 12 months. In a way, that's a boon, since lenders have tightened their standards and as a result have sent higher-quality loans to the FHA. During the housing boom, more than a third of the loans the agency insured went to subprime borrowers; today, fewer than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FHA: Housing's Safety Net Begins to Fray | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

...none, relying instead on the private sector to attract tourists. "Airlines, tour operators, hotels - they've had the responsibility of promoting America," says Henry Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst at Forrester Research in San Francisco. "The government has stayed away from these kinds of initiatives and as a result, we've lost out on travelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a New U.S. Tourism Board Woo Visitors? | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

...tough this year. Last year we got a huge grant from Macy’s, and this year they have been really helpful, but they just couldn’t give us the grant. We really had to re-evaluate the show and decide what to keep. As a result we cut our budget so much that we’ll probably raise double what we did last year... We’re getting the space [in Northwest Labs] for a steal, but it was somewhere we always wanted to do in spite of the budget cuts...

Author: By Athena L. Katsanpes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Project East | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...epic. The shorter works are slight and awkward; Alexander’s fulsome imagery is suffocating in the absence of meaning. It is only in “The Sri Lankan Loxodrome” that he creates a thematic and narrative canvas vast enough to contain his ambition. The result, however, is decidedly...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Epic Poem Wanting Ambition | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...debut and 2007’s “Carnival Ride” showed, she can sing country—and ballads in particular—with verve and gusto. But on those albums she sang the songs; here, she overpowers them, such as they are, with pyrotechnics. The result is impressive, perhaps, but certainly not enjoyable. Nor can Underwood be excused for the poor quality of the songs, as she is credited as a co-writer on seven of them. The album is a continuous lyrical train wreck, befouling every subject it touches, from love?...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Carrie Underwood | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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