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...That's true not just in Florida but the entire country. A lack of affordable homes helped spawn the economic crisis in the first place. The past two Presidents made growing homeownership rates a core goal, but to achieve that, they allowed overly loose lending standards. That caused a spike in demand for houses, which in turn raised home prices so steeply that the modest-income people whom Washington hoped to add to the homeowner rolls couldn't afford them - or eventually couldn't afford the monthly payments they had taken on. Meanwhile, affordable home construction became passé. What developer...
...Shakespeare Company had gotten communally drunk and staged an impromptu production of Dracula Meets the Wolfman. Sheen tries bravely to keep a straight face, especially during his love scenes with Mitra, a TV grad (Party of Five, Gideon's Crossing, The Practice, Boston Legal, Nip/Tuck) who looks like the spawn of Steven Tyler and Katrina vanden Heuvel...
...rose to celebrity from the direst of circumstances. Born in South Carolina, in 1927, the spawn of an African-American and Cherokee woman who had been raped by the white owner of a plantation, Eartha Mae was jettisoned by her mother at eight. Sent to an aunt in Harlem, she quit school at 15 and lived for a time in subways - an all-too-familiar blueprint for emotional disintegration...
...take brains, mix that with idealism, and incubate it in a setting that helps students rigorize how they go about their business in the world, it can sometimes spawn real influence,†Power said...
...Chris Cardella, a farmer on the east side of Firebaugh, agrees: "We need legislature to overrule all our environmental impacts because humans come first over fish." Mosebar dismisses such "myopic" thinking: "If we're assisting the fish, we're also assisting our food production." He hopes this crisis will spawn better infrastructure for moving and storing water. "We're at a crossroads right now," he says. "This is a wakeup call...