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Pointing to our dark living rooms is less painful than voting for much-needed energy taxes. It is simpler than supporting tough national energy policy like Singapore's, in which the government limits the number of cars that are licensed and charges a fee for driving downtown. It is easier than setting aside scarce federal funds for research into alternative fuels like natural gas, or limitless power like solar or wind energy...
...former mayor of New York City I feel uniquely qualified to manage your university. As I see it, you've got your Harvard Yard, which is like Brooklyn, Eliot House is uptown Manhattan and Winthrop is downtown, and Adams is Queens. How am I doing? You've got Kirkland-the Bronx, Mather-Staten Island, and the Quad, which is, I don't know, out somewhere in New Jersey...
...battle the bulge. Women are working those bodies as never before, and not so much to impress a man as to impress the person flexing in the mirror. "Working out is a way of life for me," says Lorri Sparks, 37, athletic director of New York City's Downtown Athletic Club. "Sometimes I'd rather work out with a man than even have sex." Not everyone adopts that hard-core approach, but many are sympathetic: they are women; they are getting strong; and they feel damn near invincible...
Indeed, as Silber awaited the voters' decision in downtown Boston, students speculated that most of their peers were quietly watching the election returns from their rooms...
Portman is not the only highflying mogul to feel the harshness of a downward real estate cycle. In London and dozens of U.S. cities, the commercial- property market is reeling. Hundreds of empty office towers and abandoned construction sites dot downtown neighborhoods. In most places there is no new construction. Office rents are plunging, and vacancy and delinquency rates are soaring. Overleveraged developers are being forced to refinance their loans and offer sweetheart deals to prospective tenants -- free rent for a year, say, with an exercise room thrown into the bargain. Declares Richard Peiser, director of the Lusk Center...