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...unravel, RealtyTrac was in the right place at the right time. In 2005 the firm began issuing press releases on foreclosure trends to get media attention. It succeeded, and soon people were calling. Among them: New York banking superintendent Richard Neiman, who chairs the state's foreclosure-prevention task force. "If you're going to motivate legislators to change laws and apportion money, you've got to convince them there's a problem," he says. "You've got to start with the data." Collecting and analyzing data from the state's 62 counties would have been costly, so the task...
...influence of RealtyTrac goes beyond shaping public-policy responses like the one in Virginia. The company winds up having sway over the very concept of foreclosure rates. Early on, members of New York's task force thought the best way to look at foreclosure rates would be as a percentage of households with a mortgage. That was finally tossed in favor of RealtyTrac's measure of foreclosures as a percentage of all households. If the state reported its preferred figure, it would seem to have a greater problem than other states when people compared the two sets of data. "RealtyTrac...
This donation marks a promising step towards fulfilling University President Drew G. Faust’s goal of rejuvenating the arts at Harvard. Last November, Faust announced “a new beginning for a new era of arts at Harvard” and assembled a task force for integrating arts at the University. In April of this year, David Rockefeller ’36 donated $30 million to renovate the Fogg Art Museum and support the arts task force, making this recent gift the second major art donation in Faust’s first year of tenure. Pulitzer?...
...Lowdown:It's a hefty task, trying to tell the history of man through a single animal. Beef attempts this, much in the vein of the many "(Name of Product): How (synonym for name of product) Changed the World"-type books that have flooded the market in the past decade. And it does a lot of admirably hefty lifting, offering fascinating interludes about Spanish bullfighting and Masai tribesmen in some places and a really delicious rib recipe or a listing of different cheeses in others. But the authors' florid writing-"Herders constitute neither the world's oldest profession, nor indeed...
...Task force member Denis Minihane, a longtime Brighton resident and a BC alumnus, said he thought that BC was taking the community’s concerns seriously, citing frequent task force meetings as evidence...