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...HOAs from regulating clotheslines. But the issue remains a touchy one with HOAs and real estate agents. "Most aesthetic restrictions are rooted, to a degree, in the belief that homogenous exteriors are supportive of property value," says Sara Stubbins, executive director of the Community Association Institute's North Carolina chapter. In other words, associations worry that housing prices will fall if prospective buyers think their would-be neighbors are too poor to afford dryers...
...relives his upbringing in Orange County, his isolation from the stern father he wanted to please. Martin doesn't sugarcoat or spit on this domestic tension, but he sprints through it in a short chapter. "Everybody's had the same childhood," he says. "Just because it happened doesn't make it interesting. Whenever I read an autobiography, I'm always bored by the childhood part. I'm like...
...culture into his material, though the coolness factor of knowing what tattoos Angelina Jolie has is somewhat reduced because of his frequent name-dropping. He’s especially proud of his chummy relationship with the Clintons and the fact that he graduated from Harvard.Penn makes suggestions in every chapter that imply the impact that people emulating each trend could have on economics, politics, and society. However, he provides no plausible substantiation for his claims. In one chapter, “Southpaws Unbound,” Penn describes the rise of left-handers in the United States. He argues that...
...Jacobsen does leave Harvard for MIT, it would be latest chapter in a long history of faculty moves between the two schools. In recent years, Harvard has attracted many top scholars from MIT, including behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan in 2004 and psychologists Elizabeth Spelke ’71 in 2001 and Steven Pinker in 2003. Harvard’s previous president, Lawrence H. Summers, came to Harvard as an economics professor from MIT, becoming at age 28 one of the youngest tenured professors in the University’s history...
Under the most extreme anti-PDA policies, however, even a student who hugs a friend whose parent has just died could potentially face suspension. The lack of nuance in such policies bothers critics like Lisa Graybill, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union's Texas Chapter. "Preventing harassment and teaching kids to respect each other is important, but having yet another reason for kids' behavior to be criminalized is unnecessary," she says. "It's draconian to ban all forms of touch...