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...price of prime Manhattan real estate. The Corcoran Group, a New York City real estate broker, has no trouble selling eight-room apartments at an average price of $1,170,000, vs. $889,000 last year, many to Wall Street types, who typically pay 100% cash. Chairperson Barbara Corcoran sees only one difference from the '80s: "Then everybody bought with reckless abandon. In the '90s they put on a show of caution--and then they buy with reckless abandon...
...this there were a few events of the year that touched people's better natures. Moments of silence occurred for Barbara Jordan, Cardinal Bernardin, Joseph Mitchell, James Rouse, George Burns, Claudette Colbert, Ella Fitzgerald and others of value whose deaths recalled what was valuable. At Ella's death the radio played the songs she graced, like Cole Porter's In the Still of the Night, and for a while a voice filled the air that hit every note on the note, sang words that meant something and infused heartbreak with...
...Bill has a way of defusing tension with an offbeat joke," says his wife Barbara. For instance, at one point during discussions with the dour North Koreans over Hunziker's release, Richardson asked matter-of-factly, "Well, does he still have his fingernails?" The North Korean negotiators sat stunned for a second, then broke out laughing...
Just ask customers like Barbara Stowe, a caterer in suburban Detroit who got out of the Sears habit years ago. Stowe walked into a remodeled store in Livonia, Michigan, to buy a paintbrush last month and left with an outfit for her 16-month-old niece and a renewed faith in the retailer that has since brought her back twice for Christmas gifts. "The clothes, especially for children, have amazed me," says Stowe, 47, a retailer's dream with a list that includes a grandchild and 26 nieces and nephews. "I used to get so frustrated with Sears. They would...
...serious problem deserves to be treated as such. Barbara Ehrenreich's piece [ESSAY, Dec. 2], suggesting that the U.S. shift to an "all-female military," was full of holes! The individual occurrences of sexual harassment, as awful as they are, do not represent a prevailing trend. I ask you, an all-woman military? Who would protect whom? The women joining an all-female army would probably hate men enough to obliterate them. I do understand that Ehrenreich intended to be amusing, but such fun at the expense of the majority of perfectly good soldiers of all stripes is definitely...