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...Davis said that while early clashes between the PDFs and regime soldiers were typically over in minutes, recent attacks and ambushes have lasted for hours....
...This glamorous collection includes big names such as Oscar-winning actors Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, but also lesser-known figures such as 1930s actress Nina Mae McKinney, nicknamed the “black Garbo...
...For one thing, she was married but had a female love, Dussie Mae (played in the film by Taylour Paige)....
...Also purchasing shares in Callaway were Cindy Davis, who once served as president of Nike Golf; Roger Farah, a former executive at Tory Burch and Ralph Lauren; and James Lillie, the former chief executive...
...Mae West: “The Edwardian bust, the piled peroxided hair, the seductive and reeling motions reminiscent of an overfed python . . . ” Bette Davis: “Her precise, nervy voice, the popping neurotic eyes, a kind...
...Some say that Thomas was, in fact, Lillie Mae Scott, who stabbed her husband to death in Houston in 1931. Perhaps she was on the run....
...On the opposite page is a list that reads “In Memory of Jordan Russell Davis”, “In Memory of Eric Garner”, and so on....
...In the US, the mortgage market could not operate without the financing provided by twin utilities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The parallels are intensifying in two ways....
...Admirers included Mae West, Bette Davis, George Gershwin, Leon Trotsky, Errol Flynn, Orson Welles and Frida Kahlo....
...Country violinist Lillie Mae Rische sawed away furiously at her silver fiddle, her bow visibly fraying as the evening progressed, while pedal steel guitarist Fats Kaplin, seated by a vintage television set...
...Dividends from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and rising tax receipts helped push the surplus to $116.5bn, compared to a $59.7bn deficit a year earlier (Bloomberg)....
...Rosenberg is an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a global law firm...
...In the US, banks often sell mortgages on to the federal agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which repackage them into mortgage-backed securities....
...“We know that this is an unsustainable moment in time, because refis are so robust,” said Richard Davis, chief executive of US Bancorp....
...“There have been big deals, but this was a colossal transaction,” says Richard Drucker, a corporate partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell....
...It also said it would reinvest any early repayments from mortgage securities back into debt issued by mortgage agencies such as Fannie Mae, to reduce household mortgage rates....
...When Capote was a boy, his mother Lillie Mae had left him in the care of an aunt for months at a time and gone to New York to party with wealthy men. “I knew a girl once, she was nothing like you....
...“It has always been next year that the issue of Fannie and Freddie will be taken up,” said Randall Guynn, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell as he moderated a panel at the New York event....
...– Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (PDF)...
...Davis’ order dated July 28, 2009. The pieces were surrendered to the U.S. Mint by the descendants of Israel Switt....
...We get lots of letters,” Davis says....
...The sequence of events that has taken out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, AIG and HBOS/Lloyds TSB (plus whatever other events may have unfolded in the days between this column being written...
...She was born Eartha Mae Keith, in North, South Carolina, on January 17, 1927, the illegitimate daughter of a black Cherokee sharecropper mother and a white father she knew next to nothing about....
...“It wasn’t deregulation that allowed this crisis,” said Tom Davis, the senior Republican on the committee....
...Republicans on the committee joined in the criticism of the ratings agencies, but said that the government-sponsored mortgage agencies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were also to blame....
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