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Faust focuses on the connections between Southern thinkers that made them intellectually productive. Ideas spread easily in cities, but the great distances that separate farmers challenge the transmission of new thoughts. Faust’s intellectuals were not the ante-bellum Bostonians whose easy interactions in dense urban environment produced abolitionism and transcendentalism...
...Richie's planned turn as camp counselor on The Simple Life (helping kids with, among other things, weight loss) got celebrity blog THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP musing that Heather Mills could soon be "showing poor women how to marry for money." That's unfair: it's more like Godzilla teaching urban planning. SCORE...
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...
...will be their fourth trip since the floods. In addition to visiting, volunteering and donating money, I have an additional proposal. At one point during my time in the White House, we discussed moving the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives from Washington and into a low-income urban community where it could practice what the President preached about the Federal Government's helping sacred places serve civic purposes in ways that respect constitutional principles and produce measurable results. The Bush Administration should consider relocating my former office to New Orleans. In both symbol and in substance, that would...
...everything is suddenly moving much faster than Giuliani expected: the race for endorsements, the fund-raising schedule, the competition for staff members. The rush of major states to jump their primaries to Feb. 5 could compress months of campaigning into a handful of days. A faster schedule, with big urban states playing a major role in the primaries, should favor a well-known candidate with proven crossover appeal. "It's good for me, no question about it, from a tactical point of view," says Giuliani. Furthermore, Giuliani strategists believe his experience as a tireless campaigner for other Republicans during...