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...Rosemond. The city's property tax revenue leapt by 65% last year - and its property values have risen 120% the past five years. But for a city with a median income less than $40,000, it was all a bit out of whack. Rosemond notes that before the bubble burst last year the average Miami Gardens home value was nearing $300,000 when it should have been closer to $200,000. As a result, the city and its minority residents have been a special target of what Williams calls "scoundrels and criminals dressed as mortgage brokers" duping low income...
...Since he burst onto the scene in 1991 - claiming a national identity for "Padania," his name for the comparatively rich regions around the Po River Valley from Turin to Venice - Bossi has exhibited a knack for both vulgarity and political agility. Having gradually recovered from a stroke suffered during Berlusconi's last term, he led his party to 8% of the vote in the April elections. That makes the Northern League stronger now than it has been in years, currently posting four Cabinet ministers, including Interior Minister Roberto Maroni...
...pictorial feat of the highest order. You can imagine Miro's Gothic ancestors nodding in approval at such miniatures. Their concentrated energy seems to have carried the artist along for another decade. But though he painted many a good picture afterward, he was never to repeat this sustained burst of inspiration. See the Constellations now: it will be a very long time, if ever, before they are all lined up again...
President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative has had a stunningly paradoxical effect on arms control. The American effort to create a shield against enemy missiles has given the Soviets a fresh incentive to develop new offensive weapons that would burst the remaining bonds of the arms-control process, which has been in stalemate. Yet it has also given the Soviets an incentive to return to the bargaining table and offer serious proposals in the hope of tightening the bonds of arms control around SDI itself. If there is a summit in November or December, Reagan the Star Warrior might...
...coming days. The sport is built upon the emotion of watching someone do what Riccò did on Sunday. Two-thirds of the way through the torturous ninth stage, the rail-thin blond, who had emerged with a second-place finish in last month's Giro d'Italia, burst from the pack on the category-one Col d'Aspin ascent, blowing past opponents in a stunning display of power...