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...sincere interest or care about the actual use of the property," says Robins, "it won't be worth that much over time. It jeopardizes the market." In an exchange this month on the Inman News website, a leading real estate news service, a prospective Las Vegas condo buyer told columnist Robert J. Bruss he didn't like the "smell" of the developer selling units pre-construction to speculators. Bruss didn't mince his response: "There should be a law against real estate speculators who hope to tie up a property before construction without ever taking title or adding any market...
...appreciate columnist Charles Krauthammer's clear and unequivocal statement on the dangers of the creationist intrusion into science instruction [Aug. 8]. I am a behavioral scientist and university professor, and I have always been dismayed that behavioral-science departments do not include major sections on the power of religious thought and belief. But the theory of "intelligent design" [which claims there is a supernatural influence in the origin of life, as opposed to Darwinian evolution] is neither good science nor good religion. How can well-meaning people genuinely think that our culture will advance by turning our backs on rational...
Viewers expect pundits to dispense b.s. on cable-news debate shows. But it's considered poor form to use the actual word. Hence the big hoo-ha last week over conservative columnist Robert Novak's performance on CNN's Inside Politics. After Democratic commentator James Carville teased him for trying to show fellow right-wingers that "he's got backbone," Novak shot back, "Well, I think that's bulls___." He then pulled off his mike and stormed...
...Rockower's not the only person to believe the sky is falling: Princeton economist and New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman this week wrote that "we're starting to hear a hissing sound, as the air begins to leak out of the bubble" in the real estate market. Don't expect a plunging decline, says Krugman; instead, continual falling sales and rising inventory are signaling the end of good times. In other words, the bubble won't burst, but pfffffffffffffft gradually...
...been really rattled lately with a lot of scandals and questions of credibility and this might be a case where newspaper executives, perhaps with good intentions, worried about the credibility of their product and overreacted.? ?The whole thing is very surreal,? says Linda Robertson, an award winning sports columnist at the Herald. ?People have done things much worse than Jim DeFede and they are still working...