As one of the trickiest forms of mortgage fraud — there are many others — the cash-back transaction is hardly unknown among real estate insiders, but it has largely escaped academic scrutiny.
By the time "The OC" arrived in 2003, it had become clear that not even delinquents could escape from academic rigor anymore.
This is subversive stuff, and it is not clear whether China's new leaders will prove any more receptive than their predecessors to such arguments, especially if they begin to escape their academic confines and reach ordinary people through the media.
At forty-eight, he left Harvard to become a full-time writer and to escape the academic professionalism that nurtured a university overgrown with "thistles of trivial and narrow scholarship".
And yet Frost never really lit out for the territories; instead, he moved among carbon-copy small farms with mountain views, and smart Victorians on the fringes of campuses, where, having escaped the "academic ways" he always said he loathed, he could return day after day.
In the decades around the beginning of the 20th century, it offered many painters a crucial escape route from academic art, and then it, too, gradually became an academy.
Frances does have an escape – an antipodean academic lover named Julian (Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement) who makes his own granola, which she seems to think is a good thing.
Maybe my working life has been a long escape from the academic world towards the expression of feelings and ideas that seem to me common to every age and art form.
They don't escape without an academic element though, because they must write a commentary on their project.
But there was no escaping an almost academic ambience, a sense that many of England's players may feel like heading home now rather than making the journey from Belo Horizonte via Rio after the grim formalities are completed against Costa Rica on Tuesday.
