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Sometimes Zell, 66, shares his views with friends through an annual New Year's e-mail, in which he changes the lyrics of a song to reflect his thoughts. In January 2006, he opined on the private-equity boom through a remake of Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head--changed to "Capital keeps rainin' on my head/ So much is out there that the world is out of whack/ When will we see balance back?" The ending: "We need to be prepared for slim annuities...
...your sale of Equity Office Properties Trust mark the top of the real estate market and the peak of the private-equity boom...
What about all the individual investors who jumped into the housing boom to flip homes and were left with hundreds of homes to sell when the music stopped...
...prodigious collections of Widener Library, and few could navigate the stacks without a map. In this generation of HOLLIS-dependent undergrads, the only romance associated with the library can be found in the smutty open dialogue of Bored@Lamont or late-night hookups in Widener. Thanks to the boom in digitized literature, students are increasingly able to forego the simple pleasures of the musty, dimly lit, and seemingly innumerable corridors of Widener: now the books are going online.With new developments in the digital revolution—an opaque term that essentially denotes all technological progress—the literary landscape...
Vietnam's pro-girl campaign depends on changing the attitudes of its own post-war baby boom - nearly 60% of the population is under 30 - who are now busy starting families. It's an uphill battle, but the country's previous success at changing attitudes is encouraging. Thirty years ago, most Vietnamese had a strong preference for families of four and five children. That has now been replaced with a general desire for smaller families, enough so that the official two-child limit has been eased. Sultan Aziz, the U.N. Population Fund's Asia-Pacific director, says Vietnam might still...