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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed suit yesterday against a number of national lenders seeking civil penalties and restitution for unfair and deceptive business practices related to home mortgages (PDF of Suffolk Superior Court complaint HERE). By my reading of the complaint, the improper conduct alleged can be divided into…
Read More »St. Francis Xavier, S.J. (1506-1552) With all the Lowell connections, it’s important to note that today December 3 is the Feast Day of St. Francis Xavier. Francis Xavier was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary, born in Navarre – one of the seven founders of the Society of Jesus along with teacher and…
Read More »On Dec. 1, the NYTimes carried an article about young writers and scholars in NY who have created their own means of distributing their creative and intellectual work. Thanks to Dick for spotting this. I misread the headline as “Literary Clubs,” and in a nanosecond decided to skip that on…
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