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Edward Gramlich, a former Federal Reserve Board member now at the Urban Institute, says Congress should sic bank examiners on subprime lenders and ban certain kinds of loans--especially those involving balloon payments. But Gramlich, author of the forthcoming The Rise and Fall of the Subprime Mortgage Market, also sees benefits in the subprime boom. "There seem to be more gainers than losers, and unless the losers lose a lot more per household, the net gains would seem to outpace the losses," he wrote in February. So, yes, things may have gotten out of hand. But neither should we clamor...
...crowd”—completely contradicts the bond of sisterhood they claim to uphold. Though the remaining members of the DZ chapter issued a statement yesterday denying that “race, weight, and academic majors were used as a criteria [sic] in the membership review process” and blaming the chapter’s woes on “campus climate,” the plausibility of their excuses and denials are threadbare. Since The New York Times first wrote about DZ last weekend, a mountain of evidence has been amassed against the national organization, reinforced...
...also says Hicks would pose a threat if released. "He once told me in Afghanistan that if he were to go into a building of Jews with an automatic weapon or as a suicide bomber he would have to say something like 'there is no god but Allah' ect [sic] just so he could see the look of fear on their faces, before he takes them out," writes Abbasi...
...Hsiao-hsien’s “Three Times”? You can’t complain that the films are too hard to find in the U.S.—all three are already available on Netflix. Look out, Academy members—I might have to sic my international gang connections on you. —Staff writer Kyle L. K. McAuley can be reached at kmcauley@fas.harvard.edu...
...letter the Bishop refers to both the Unabomber and the D.C. sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo. "You will help, after all it is so easy to kill somebody it is almost scary," the letter states. "Just think it could be as simple as mailing a package just like The Unibomber [sic] use to do simple mail out a package and when the suspecting recipient opens it they don't even know what hit them, or maybe like Salvo [sic] did in the D.C. sniper case just a small hole in the trunk of the car and BANG...