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...started drifting upward, and it really took off in 2002, getting up to almost 25 in late 2005 and early 2006. Since then, the number has fallen, but not yet back to its 15-year average - though that average might be overstating where the ratio will eventually level out, anyway, since it includes the boom years. If the price-ratio needs instead to settle back to its preboom average, then we're easily looking at up to another year of drops based on the current rate of decline, according to Carbacho-Burgos...
...York Times that he felt a similar Holocaust-movie fatigue when offered the idea of a film on the Bielski brothers, a band of real-life Jews in Belorussia during World War II. "I groaned, 'Not another movie about victims,' " he writes. But he went ahead and made Defiance anyway...
...anyway, there's another reason to choke off all the sardonic snorts: Caspar isn't the first foreigner to head the Michelin guide. That distinction went to Englishman Derrick Brown in 2000, an appointment that caused outrage in France and delight in Britain. France seems to have moved on since then. It's less sure the same can be said for its neighbors...
Abraham Lincoln went to the theater one night in 1865, and Andrew Johnson became President the next morning. Because Johnson hadn't been elected to office, Congress became very angry whenever he vetoed a bill - who did he think he was, anyway? - and in 1867 the House Judiciary Committee drew up a long list of complaints about him and recommended that he be impeached. The vote never passed and was shelved until 1868, when Johnon fired a political rival, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton - in violation of the Tenure of Office Act, which said that the President couldn't remove...
...only species of rat (of the four-legged variety, anyway) that lives in New York City is the Rattus norvegicus, also known as the Norway rat or the brown rat. Nobody knows exactly how many live here, but everyone agrees that the population has exploded in recent years - thanks to warmer winters, ever more wasteful food habits and, in part, the city's crippling fiscal problems in the 1970s...