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...chutzpah, or whatever you want to say, to believe that if I write a really good [song] about it, it's going to make a difference. It's going to matter to somebody." • Discussing his the political themes in his music during an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, July...
...loans start trading more regularly because of the government's PPIP program, the banks would have submit those loans to so-called mark-to-market rules. That means the banks would have to take a write-down not just on the mortgage loans they sell, and get cash for, but on all of the mortgage loans on their books. Banks hold about $3.5 trillion in mortgage loans. So having to mark all those loans down $0.21, not just the ones that are sold, would be disastrous. (Read "Geitherner's Bank Plan: Only a Partial Solution...
This is terrible news for nerds, since it implies that in the end, even if they go on to invent software or write Lost episodes or produce great books, the bullies and jocks will win in a far more primal way: they spread their genes to more little bullies and jocks. Call it the ultimate victory of Attila...
...like taking charge and being competitive have an evolutionary advantage even if high socioeconomic status no longer does. "Perhaps the idea of having children is most attractive (or least frightening) to individuals who prefer to act as leaders and to influence other people, including their own offspring," the authors write. The theory is that evolution genetically predisposes Type A's to like having kids because thousands of years ago, people with Type A personalities accrued more resources to guarantee their kids' survival...
...reporter. Why, life, why? First you destroy my I-banking dreams and now I can’t even write for a local newspaper...