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...sometimes it seems that in the West, and especially in the U.S., there is also room for opening and restructuring. Armchair warriors exist not only in our socialist world but in the capitalist one. The difference is that ours build their careers on uncritical pro-Sovietism and yours build their careers on blind anti-Sovietism. John F. Kennedy was right when he said that the real borders are not the ones that divide countries, but the ones that divide people. Your hard-liners do not want international tensions to diminish. They do not want glasnost and freedom to develop...
...York City gave Nehemiah 30 blocks of vacant land to build on. Equally % important, the city agreed to provide each home buyer with a $10,000 interest- free second mortgage, repayable only when the house is resold. A vital ingredient in many private housing initiatives, the second mortgage can bridge the gap between the price of a home and the amount of a first mortgage that a low-income family can afford. For the Joneses, this interest-free loan, coupled with a below-market- rate first mortgage from New York State, reduced the monthly cost of their house to just...
...invest $1.5 million of its pension fund in the bank's certificates of deposit. In nearby Somerville, Mass., the nonprofit Somerville Corp. used $484,000 from a 1984 federal Urban Development Action grant to attract more than $2 million in other funding. The money enabled Somerville Corp. to build 32 red cedar town houses for local residents on the site of a former school. The houses sold...
...only catch is that you have to move your new domicile away from its current location--a site on which the university plans to build a 400-bad dorm starting this summer...
They have also plunged deep into the art of the '80s to build a base for the year 2000. Given the shrinking number of 20th century masterpieces filtering onto the market and their relentlessly inflating prices, the Met will never be able to catch up with MOMA. But its gravitational pull as an institution should not be underestimated. The Met is the greatest general museum in America, and its new wing marks what may be the final phase in the competition for modernist icons. Quite a few of the privately owned works that Lieberman was assumed to have lined...