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Nowhere was that more true than in the ill-conceived investment to turn the twinned 11,000-unit middle-class housing complex known as Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, built originally to accommodate World War II veterans, into luxury housing, for which limits on yearly rent increases are chucked in favor or whatever the market will bear. The prospectus offered by the lead investors, Tishman Speyer and Larry Fink's asset-management fund BlackRock, imagined evicting 50% of rent-regulated tenants in just a few years. But tenants fought back and won in a court decision that also undercut...
...into more realistic, immersive situations. "Games could actually be more creative if some of these rules were incorporated," says Castillo. It's an idea that's already catching on. We've long known that video games have a unique ability to promote a message; now designers are creating games built not around destroying worlds but saving our own. "Games are growing up," says Suzanne Seggerman, president of Games for Change, a group promoting games with a positive impact. "People are realizing that they can do a lot more than entertain...
First he showed me a small industrial park built not long ago by a local businessman. It's got tenants, and the owner has been making his mortgage payments. But when his loan comes due - commercial mortgages generally run three to 10 years, not the 30 that homeowners get - he almost certainly won't be able to refinance because building prices have dropped and lending standards have tightened. Which means he will either have to cough up a lot more up-front cash or lose the property...
...been relegated to the bench by an illness and freshman Tony Buxton was recovering from a concussion in the hospital, leaving Harvard little chance of keeping pace with the Wolverines (5-1). After two technical falls, two falls, and a forfeit through the first seven matches, Utah State built an insurmountable lead. Still, Harvard’s heavier wrestlers refused to end the day with a whimper...
Ratzon had built a reputation for spiritual redemption (which is what goel means in Hebrew) by way of a center in Tel Aviv that combined teachings on the Kabbalah with healing. In 2000, he told a reporter that he had had a vision of a "soul" appearing to him and telling him that the secrets of the Torah would be revealed to him, allowing him to no longer work hard in his life. He became known as a healer for young women, some of whom fell in love with him. One of his "wives" said she was smitten after...