Apparently, one Mr. Paschal worked as a loan officer in Wells Fargo’s Annandale, Virginia offices for 10 years, from 1997 to 2007. Speaking about Wells Fargo, his affidavit states: “They referred to sub-prime loans made in minority communities as ghetto loans and minority customers as ‘mud people.’” He also said a Wells Fargo Bank office in Silver Spring, Maryland had an “affinity group marketing” department, whose purpose was to hire African Americans to call on African-Americ
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Wells Fargo’s “Ghetto Loans” and the “Mud People”
I recently finished a fine book entitled, The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World by Stephen J. Nichols . I’ve studied the Protestant Reformation quite a bit through the years, but I really enjoyed this book nonetheless. It is an excellent brief look at this great period of reformation and revival in the church’s history. It is an engaging, quick read. I highly recommend it, particularly if you haven’t dug into our rich, Protestant heritage.
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Book Recommendation – The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World
For anyone interested in Cretin-Derham Hall’s first justice education trip to Africa(By JEForliti, June 28, 2009) On June 8, 2009, eight CDH students and three staff left for the western part of Kenya in East Africa, returning 15 days later. It was a memorable journey into the lives and habitat of handshakes, smiles, JAMBO, and “that green spinach-like stuff,” ending with forty hours of “up-country” roads and air planes. KENYA KREW ’09 returned home happy and healthy, having experienced the jour
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CDH trip to Kenya ’09
About 50 people spent part of Sunday afternoon listening to speakers and musicians of different faiths at Hackley Park for the Celebration of Faith. Some sang along as musicians played songs praising God and community. Others listened intently as community members explained aspects of Judaism, Hinduism and Christianity.
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Celebration of Faith an example of wide variety of events Sunday at Muskegon Summer Celebration. (The Muskegon Chronicle)
&$ &$Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R) meets with Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov in Tashkent June 28, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)&$ &$ Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday that China is willing to expand cooperation with Uzbekistan on wide-ranging issues while meeting with Uzbek President Islam Karimov. “Uzbekistan, as a country with important influence in central Asia, …
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Chinese vice premier: China seeks to expand co-op with Uzbekistan in all fields (People’s Daily)
The Column One slot on the Los Angeles Times frontpage is, according to a compilation of these tales , “a daily jolt of all-engrossing storytelling without rival in American journalism.” Unfortunately, too much emphasis is occasionally placed on the storytelling and too little on the journalism. Such was the case with a nice little feature earlier this month about Buddhist chaplains at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.
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‘… and the subject was death’
LOS ANGELES — Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is one of only 10 children’s hospitals in the nation — and the only pediatric medical center on the West Coast — ranked in all 10 pediatric specialties and named to the national “Honor Roll” of children’s hospitals in the United States in the current U.S. News & World Report rankings, available online at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals . The …
The House of Commons is in danger of cutting its own constitutional throat, but the Clerk of the House is trying to stop them. The clerk is Malcolm Jack, a man of scholarship and courage who is the ultimate referee on all constitutional questions which affect the Commons. His core duty is to advise the House, its Speaker, the committees and MPs on the practice and procedure of the House, and its rights
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This ipsy-dipsy quango won’t save democracy
The terror threat has changed greatly but airport security is still stuck in the past, combating the terrorism of the 1960s and 1970s. Worse still, the antiquated approach to security is aiding and abetting terrorists. The huge queues caused at checkpoints as staff check that mummy’s make-up is put into a plastic bag create an ideal target for suicide bombers: why try to board a flight when you can blow up thousands in the terminal
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Outdated airport security is leaving the door open to bombers
What you do now echoes in eternity. — Maximus, Gladiator In the aftermath of the death of Michael Jackson, there have been a flood of articles around the web discussing Jackson’s legacy as the King of Pop and what MJ will be remembered for as the decades pass — his seven Top 40 singles from the mega-successful album “Thriller”, his charismatic on-stage performances, his leading edge music videos, and so on. And yet what struck me about this conversation was how hallow it all sounded.
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MJ & the Futility of an Earthly Legacy