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...On one cassette, Vanessa-Mae plays her violin thigh-deep in the sea’s waves. “Die poor or/Give them what they want,” Ajudha sings in her a cappella blues composition “Demons” in her room....
...An undefined uncertainty and fear of violence due to the elections led Mae Rouhani, 29, and her husband, to pack a “bug-out bag” last month, in case they need to flee New York in a hurry....
...Having written once already of child star Shirley Temple’s “coquetry” and “oddly precocious body as voluptuous in grey flannel trousers as Miss Dietrich’s” (in a 1936 review of Captain January), he went...
...Darren Shirley at broker Shore Capital predicted full-year profit of £4m....
...The idea of extending the FT’s coverage to include the arts was entirely the brainchild of the managing editor, Garrett Moore (then Viscount Moore, later Earl of Drogheda)....
...Garrett Keast draws refined and concentrated playing from the SWR radio symphony orchestra and shapes Haas’s score with assured sensitivity....
...He’s a known quantity,” said Craig Shirley, who is now working on an authorised biography of Mr Gingrich....
...For three years, Republicans have railed against Democrats for failing to legislate to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that guarantee home loans....
...The legislative proposals have garnered added attention because of the current efforts to reduce the US home loan market’s dependence on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage financing organisations responsible...
...The paper is also likely to disappoint those who want a detailed proposal for the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises whose $140bn bail-out was the costliest rescue...
...Proposals in a white paper released on Friday would wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that have received billions of dollars of taxpayer money to prevent their failure...
...Republican House member Scott Garrett told a gathering of securitisation experts on Monday the government does not have the expertise to price for such risks....
...Central to that debate is what to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance companies created to facilitate home ownership after the Great Depression....
...For the past two years, nearly all the home loans in the US have been those that are eligible to be purchased by government-sponsored agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...But Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, just like many of their mortgage holders, have fallen on hard times....
...Home lending this year in the US has been almost exclusively mortgages that conform to standards for the government-sponsored entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, now under government conservatorship....
...The US government should help revive the moribund market for big mortgages by getting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy large home loans from banks, the chief executive of the lender Wells Fargo urged on...
...As a pop diva, she was a role model to many more, not least Diana Ross and Shirley Bassey. She also showed a considerable political conscience, sometimes at a cost to her career....
...Born in 1944 in Middletown, a Midwestern steel town, his father Sewell “Dutch’’ Gross, worked at Armco as a sales executive and his mother, Shirley, was a housewife....
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