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...producer for Keller Williams Realty pre-Katrina, expects redevelopment to be spotty at best. In Jefferson Parish, just west of the city, most of the houses, which took a couple feet of water, are already sold or renovated. Sales are up from last year, about 13% in July, by comparison with New Orleans itself, where sales are lagging behind last year - though only by 10%, surprisingly. In the middle-class bastions of Lakeview and New Orleans, houses "stripped to the studs" are going for land value only. "The older generation who had homes for 40 years, retired, saved and thought...
Props to the first-year who heads over to Inman, as the fact that it doesn’t feature a T stop makes it a little more obscure in comparison to Central and Porter. But getting there is just as easy as the other squares—simply walk past the Science Center down Cambridge Street. Along the way, you’ll pass Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge’s public high school, and Darwin’s Ltd., a great place to study and eat. Keep walking, and you’ll reach Inman?...
...know enough about him to have an opinion one way or the other. In hypothetical matchups with the preseason G.O.P. favorite, John McCain, Hillary is the only big-name Democrat to make a real race of it, with McCain edging her by just 2 points among registered voters. By comparison, McCain would trounce Kerry by 10 points and Gore...
...OHinNY. There's no other information provided in the post except for his first name, Tom, but the blog is popular enough that even if it's technically private, it's really easy to deduce who someone is, and that has very interesting ramifications. I think the better comparison is reality television - people really want to be on it. It's a compliment in a weird, 21st century kind...
...weeks--that Princeton wasn't heavenly at all but a flawed, all-too-human institution whose reputation seemed exaggerated compared with the quality of the education it offered. Because I had transferred there from a smaller school--Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.--I had a basis for comparison. Although Princeton had far more money and mystique, its reading lists were composed of the same books, and its students were filled with the same questions. But the students carried those books with more aplomb, and they asked their questions with more confidence...