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...Finance Committee maintains the lowest profile on the council, usually keeping out of the sometimes vicious spats that characterize debates in Student Affairs and Campus Life, its more controversial siblings in the council structure...
...high-cost loans to lower-income borrowers doesn't sound like God's work, and the industry continues to hear criticism that it takes advantage of unsophisticated or desperate customers. "There is a whole segment of lenders who target low-income families and try to trap them in a vicious cycle of debt," complains Congressman Joseph Kennedy, a member of the House Banking Committee, who has pushed successfully for legislation to limit mortgage interest and fees. "It's a strategy that allows them to rake in hefty profits off the misery of others...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Why do we live in the constant shadow of victimization at the hands of vicious criminals? Why are so many of our neighborhoods decaying and dirty...
...believe that voter turnout percentages in the low thirties mean that democracy cannot or does not work. They are right. However, low voter turnout is not bad in itself and is only symptomatic of a greater problem. I am asserting that not participating in the civic society creates a vicious cycle. If citizens do not or cannot participate, then they will not vote because they do not see positive results from their elected representatives. And, of course, they will not see positive results unless they participate in the civic society regularly as civic society was designed. Much of the apathy...
...then students stopped showing up, so administrators scaled back the other features. And when the administrators scaled back services, students continued to stay away. Now caught in a vicious cycle, students and administrators fear that the $25 million commons will become simply an over-priced and underutilized basement...