“We don’t have the design DNA of a Jeep or Range Rover. It’s a different brand, so this car has the design DNA of a Genesis. I don’t care what the other brands do: I do it my way.” Donckerwolke added that the pared-back design of the X Gran Equator was a deliberate contrast to […]
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A crisis-driven regulatory legacy Despite FIRREA’s implementation, the 2008 financial crisis underscored persistent issues within the appraisal industry. Fraudulent or inaccurate valuations deepened the crisis, revealing systemic weaknesses including regulatory gaps and conflicts of interest. Congress responded by passing the Dodd-Frank Act, which added new responsibilities, such as requiring state regulation of Appraisal Management Companies
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It was a muggy, overcast afternoon in June 2010 when Ann Foley’s life unraveled. The day had got off to a pleasant enough start; Ann and her husband, Don, took their two sons, Tim and Alex, for a celebratory lunch at an Indian restaurant not far from the family home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was
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I wish I could remember when I first read Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time—I must have been around twenty—but I certainly remember how much I loved it, which has only grown with every reread. I had already become a serious reader of crime fiction, immersed in the works of contemporary crime writers in addition
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The girl in the middle demands our attention. Article continues after advertisement She looks straight at the camera, wrapped tight in a trade blanket that conceals her body. Six white men in military and civilian garb crowd her space, standing to either side of her, symmetrically framing her in the center. None of them look
“Sexual intercourse beganIn nineteen sixty-three(which was rather late for me)—Between the end of the Chatterley banAnd the Beatles’ first LP.”–Philip Larkin, Annus Mirabilis* Article continues after advertisement An elegiac verse from the patron saint of university librarians rather accurately dates the emergence of the permissive “Sixties,” more a state of mind than an exact decade—a
I first read Hamlet in Jamaica. The bleak daylight surrounding my high school, Happy Grove, was like the faded glow of an old photograph. Rain was expected; it never came. There might have been thunder, or that could just have been the pages turning in unison. Article continues after advertisement This was 1998, the beginning
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In my early twenties, I worked one summer as domestic help in a private residence for rich male university students in New York City. As part of our training, we women were taught to close all the doors to all the rooms we entered and follow a strict schedule as we moved around the house
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“I attrybute my suksess in life to mi devoshun to spelyng.”–Josh Billings* Article continues after advertisement Simplified spelling looks silly. There’s no getting around that. For most readers today, the mere sight of words like “nolej” or “edukayshun”—or any of the countless others pushed by the “simplified spelling movement” in its centuries-long quest to phoneticize
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