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(There’s nothing like a state dinner to get my mouth watering — gingered pheasant consommé!)

And only a select few borrowers with pristine credit can secure the most attractive rates: for the week that ended Jan. 15, rates on a 30-year fixed mortgage sank to 5.12 percent, the 11th consecutive weekly drop and the lowest rate since the big mortgage financer Freddie Mac began tracking them in 1971.

It also, however, contains the potential for negative capability that might help transform genocide into something generative.