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...value of homes in the area remain strong even if that means simply declining less than other markets. Real estate broker Ed Nornes argues that there is a bright side to the housing lull. "It does weed out a lot of people who did not belong in this business...
...French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday announced that France would be creating its own national sovereign fund to buy stocks in troubled private companies. On Tuesday, Germany had rejected Sarkozy's call to create a European-wide sovereign fund that could prevent Europeans waking up "to find European companies belong to non-European capital, bought when share prices were at their lowest point". Sarkozy also wants governments in countries that use the euro to have greater powers to manage it against other currencies, and to significantly extend the term lengths of the rotating E.U. presidency - which France just happens...
...local aquifer appropriated by an Israeli settlement. We ignore such claims, and the sullen outrage that accompanies them, at our peril. But there is a second sense in which people make a claim of justice, and this is as a collective - asking that a group to which they belong should receive their just deserts of respect, dignity and influence...
There is one thing, however, that works in Indignation. Like Updike, Roth could be said to belong to the literary Me generation: writers (Norman Mailer was another) who traffic in thinly veiled alter egos, whose own internal dramas are their primary source of material. David Foster Wallace called them the Great White Narcissists, and it's true: Portnoy's awareness of the world around him more or less stopped at the end of his erect penis...
...given Lesley’s most forward-looking expansion plans, interactions—and potentially tension—between university affiliates and residents might only increase.Lesley plans to build a new art facility in Porter Square, and also hopes to take over several buildings that currently belong to the Episcopal Divinity School, located just west of Harvard in the Brattle Square neighborhood.City Councillor Sam Seidel, while applauding Lesley’s growth, said he has some reservations. “We’ve got to be very careful—we’ve already got two world-famous...