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...weeks and then decide to retire to Spain." But the boom is flattening off. Housing prices, up by 17% in 2004 and a further 13.9% last year, are expected to grow by 9.8% this year and 8% in 2007. The competition is sharpening for foreign buyers: houses in Croatia and Morocco are cheaper. Spain's good schools, health care and modern infrastructure will keep European snowbirds coming, but foreign buyers are already scarcer. "Until last year we were selling 20 to 25 properties, mostly to British, but now it is down to 18 to 20 a month," says Francisco Toro...
...sense of community over the flashy tourist trade. "What's changing in the last few years here is quality," says Begoña Iturriaga, head of investment for IREA, Spain's biggest real estate consultancy. "Ten years ago you could sell anything." As competition matures in Morocco, Turkey and Croatia, Spain's smart money is appealing to upscale sunseekers like the Harveys. They walk to the gym every morning and, although they have a car, they can take a bus almost anywhere they want to go locally or catch a 20-minute train to Málaga. Their compound...
...Johnson's plan that he both bang down low and bomb threes. And if he leads Dallas to a title, Nowitzki will stamp the European revolution of America's game. The first wave of Euros from the early '90s - Vlade Divac of Serbia, Toni Kukoc and Drazen Petrovic from Croatia - had to earn the begrudging respect of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and the basketball establishment. The next wave - Nowitzki, Peja Stojakovic of Serbia, Pau Gasol of Spain - could play, but still faced the question of whether they could carry a team deep into the playoffs. Nowitzki proves they...
...expansion wasn't complicated enough, Europe woke up last week to find a brand-new baby on its doorstep: the tiny republic of Montenegro, tucked between Albania and Croatia on the eastern Adriatic coast. By a slight majority, Montenegrins voted to break away from Serbia, driving the last nail in the coffin of what was once called Yugoslavia. It was a great victory for the leading advocate of independence, Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, whose supporters were out on the streets of Podgorica, Cetinje and Budva celebrating, dressed in the bright red of their newly minted nation and waving flags, before...
...sale in late March. The book comes 10 years after the establishment of the scholarship in memory of the late Ron Brown, the first African American to serve as secretary of commerce and Democratic National Committee chair. Brown died in April 1996 aboard a military plane that crashed in Croatia. More than 160 students have won the scholarship in the decade since it was created. Tracy T. “Ty” Moore II ’06, a current scholar, remarked that the student essayists demonstrate that “it is possible to triumph in the midst...