Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Today's rally attracted a smaller crowd than asimilar rally several months ago, which drew about200 students, and March's Rally for Justice, whichdrew about 350 students...
...guarantee the availability of home loans for working stiffs. The breakpoint is high enough--$240,000 this year--that the higher interest rates on loans of that size afflict only one in five buyers nationwide. And so what? They can afford it, right? Don't be so sure. In today's torrid housing market, prices in some regions are escalating far faster than personal income, shoving more home buyers into jumboland without a paycheck to match. In Louisville, Dallas and Phoenix, prices are going up 7% to 10% a year. In Charleston, S.C., home prices rose 16% last year...
...Today mortgage money is easy to find. A 30-year fixed-rate jumbo goes for about 7.08%--not that much more than the smaller "conforming" loan at 6.9%. Last October, though, jumbo borrowers had to pony up an average 7.22% when nonjumbo borrowers were paying only 6.76%, a punishing difference. On a $250,000 loan, that extra interest cost comes to $77.20 a month, or $27,792.13 over the life of the loan...
Snapshot parables from today's Saigon: a young woman (Nguyen Ngoc Hiep) befriends a leprous poet; a pedicab driver idolizes a bitter whore; an American visitor (Harvey Keitel), who sired a child back in the war days, returns to search for his daughter. Writer-director Bui, who left Vietnam when he was two, returns to graft these daintily sentimental tales onto rapturous vistas, photogenic faces and a long history of colonial hurt. Alas, Three Seasons, a Sundance prizewinner, shows little more than Bui's fondness for visual and narrative cliches. A better director will have to make the definitive "post...
...children also need us to help them develop good judgment in picking their way through the minefields in today's society. We need to stop treating them as miniature adults. It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all. But parents need the support of the entire community. They need leaders and business owners to help them enforce the protections already in place, from theaters turning away kids from adult-rated movies to networks promoting the V chip. Parents need the community to come up with new protections, especially...