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...fastest-growing regions. The Pacific region - Washington, Oregon and California - came in next with regional prices increases of 18.75%. Home prices on the East Coast, in states from Maryland to Florida, showed their fastest growth rate since 1975, jumping nearly 18%. The smallest gains continued to occur in New England and the Midwest, where prices still managed to increase by about 10% and 7% respectively...
...Cold River in southwest New Hampshire lies a wooded town of slow streams and defunct mills, a relic of distant New England days.It’s called Alstead, population 1,944. On one late summer day in 2005, Robert Brown, a former Dartmouth football star, was hard at work building a new barn on his family’s rural property.His son, Morgan, the Harvard baseball player, busied himself hammering nails. Hopped up on iron supplements—to get the blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless...
...sailing team put together its best performance of the young spring season Sunday, beating out five teams at the Brown Team Racing Invite on its way to a first place finish in Providence, R.I.The races marked the first chance for the Crimson to test its skills in New England waters after spending the first two weekends in Charleston, S.C. The opening regatta of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA), the Brown Invite is more akin to the typical regatta Harvard will sail this season. And, in typical northeastern fashion, the weather played a large part in how things turned...
...feel betrayed or fear the Western work ethic. Like the Indians, we are success stories in our adopted homes but not in the land of our birth. They say a prophet is never honored in his homeland, but they also say charity must begin at home. Briggy Chukwumah Berkshire, England...
...Islamic terrorists. While moderate Muslims are trying to find their voice and salvage their religion, the Western media help the radicals by making fun of everything that's precious to a common Muslim. Insults have a way of hurting, even in a modern, secular world. Mir Shovkat Ahmad Leeds, England...