Anne Hathaway Regressing, Doing Yet Another Chick-Lit Adaptation
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:54:29 PDT
Anne Hathaway, an actress who has made it well-known that she is unhappy with the roles shaping her image has taken yet another formulaic chick-lit adaptation, in the form of "The Opposite of Love." Which is odd way to change one's image, since she is still known as the lead in such soft-edged movies like "Princess Dairies" and "The Devil Wears Prada" (also a chick-lit adaptation), but we had high hopes for her to change that with her role as a recovering drug addict in Jonathan Demme's upcomin
Blame Fannie Mae and Congress for the Credit Mess - WSJ.com
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:22:03 PDT
To curry congressional support after their accounting scandals in 2003 and 2004, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac committed to increased financing of "affordable housing." They became the largest buyers of subprime and Alt-A mortgages between 2004 and 2007, with total GSE exposure eventually exceeding $1 trillion. They stimulated the growth of subpar
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