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...light …/ Till the stock of the Puritans die.” Harry R. Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and the author of “Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future?” His book with Hal Abelson and Ken Ledeen, “Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion,” will be published on June...
...This week, Patrick Barta of the Wall Street Journal wrote that a home-appraisal process dominated by mortgage brokers working on commission instead of banks (who actually loan the money) may be inflating home prices beyond their worth. In Barron?s, Alan Abelson devoted his weekly column to the possibility of "a jerrybuilt boom," and called the housing frenzy "the last great asset bubble" - one that may be about to pop. And TIME?s own Dan Kadlec writes this week that housing?s traditional year-long lag behind a falling stock market is about to kick...
...also get word on the housing sector via housing starts. Barron?s frontman Alan Abelson got stomachs clenched everywhere this weekend by declaring an imminent bubble in the sector everybody thanks for keeping consumers spending this long. Then it turned out he was just talking about homebuilding stocks like Centex shedding a few bucks "in the years ahead." Not to denigrate the value of that (probably accurate) insight to Centex investors or other housing-watchers, but we?ve got bigger, more imminent fish to fear. Also Thursday: Weekly jobless claims, and a fresh four-week rolling average that will hopefully...
...years after therapist Tera Abelson and cameraman Mark Wotton separated in 1992, they worked out creative doublenesting arrangements to enable both to continue living with their children. First, Tera moved into a tent in the backyard of their Massachusetts home. Later, she moved inside, and Mark slept in an enclosed porch. In 1995, after relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, they were able to afford a large house in which they had bedrooms on separate floors. Initially, the children--Zoe, then 3, and Noa, 4--were oblivious to the separation. "The fact that Mark and I were parenting partners...
...think it's great," said Matt N. Abelson '02. "It's a really novel idea...