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...none of that means rent-backs won't eventually take off. There are plenty of examples in the recent past of housing policies starting at the federal housing agencies and later expanding industry-wide thanks to strong-arming from some combination of the Obama Administration and Congress. Loan modifications are the quintessential example. Perhaps one more relevant bit here is the law that was passed earlier this year requiring banks that repossess houses to honor the terms of existing leases (i.e., to not immediately kick out any existing renters). Fannie Mae already had such a policy in place. Over...
...might want to calm down. Richard J. Pollack, a research associate with the Harvard School of Public Health, says that head lice (Pediculus capitis) just aren't that big of a deal. And your elementary school principal, well he is probably among the ranks of school administrators nation-wide who overreact about these harmless creatures...
Moments later, late folksinger Noor Jehan's 1965 anti-India war song filled the air. Four decades after that song was written, as many Pakistanis now realize, it is the enemy within that poses the real threat. And Ismail Farid's wide-ranging collection of monochrome martial attire paid a somber-colored yet loud homage to those soldiers "who have lost their lives during past operations and the continuous terrorist attacks." Headgear ranged from stiff officers' hats to turbans coiled in razor wire. The makeup was smeared on faces to resemble battlefield camouflage and war wounds...
...received a phone call from Benazir Bhutto days after Bhutto's historic election as the Muslim world's first female leader. "She called me up and said, 'I've just had a baby. I need to take oath. I need a green outfit. And I want wide shoulders.' " The shoulder pads got progressively bigger. "She really had a fixation about them." Khan then suggested that she wear a white scarf to crown the ensemble, displaying both colors of the Pakistani flag. In 1996, when Princess Diana visited Pakistan, Rizwan Beyg was commissioned to outfit her. "I actually dressed...
...mouth” is only weakly strung together by the pale “forces.” Compare these lines with the Mitchell: “…Young man, / it is not your loving, even if your mouth / was forced wide open by your own voice—learn // to forget that passionate music. It will end.” Though Mitchell changes the syntax considerably, the line breaks and enjambments are absolutely breathtaking. Where Snow maintains that the voice opens the mouth Mitchell has the mouth open first, then the line break, thereafter the cause...