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- THE WEEK, Page 26SOCIETYEt Cetera
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- THE THIN RED LINE
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- Commercial banks and S&Ls confidently assure loan applicants
- that under federal law, qualifying for a home mortgage isn't a
- black-and-white issue -- it's green. Theoretically and legally,
- the sole criterion is whether the borrower can repay the loan.
- But a new nationwide survey by the Federal Reserve Board shows
- that in 1991 banks denied home mortgages to 37% of all black
- applicants but only 17% of whites. Sadly, income disparities
- don't account for the gap. Even among the highest income
- blacks, 23% of applicants were denied loans, vs. 9% for whites
- of comparable income.
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- BRANDON'S FADE-OUT
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- The charmed career of Brandon Tartikoff -- at 43, head of
- Paramount Pictures after leading NBC television to Cosby-esque
- heights during the '80s -- has been shadowed by personal
- calamity: two bouts with cancer and last year an auto accident
- that grievously injured his 9-year-old daughter. The private
- side has won out, as Tartikoff relinquished his Paramount post
- last week to spend more time with his recuperating child. His
- 15-month reign included the rough seas of the plodding Columbus
- epic 1492: Conquest of Paradise and the register-ringing
- teen-twitter Wayne's World.
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