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...ratio for the 54 metro areas Economy.com broke out was 19.8 for the three months through September, a couple of points higher than the 15-year average of 17.7 but significantly lower than where the ratio stood three years ago, 24.4. By doing some additional math (which we'll explain later), we can surmise that house prices still have to drop 4.6% over the next five years, assuming the price-rent ratio returns to normal over that period. Funny how that almost doesn't seem so bad at this point. And if we look at the entire U.S., which includes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Data Say House Prices May Be Nearing a Bottom | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...study. "If there are certain costs - we don't want to get involved, maybe because we aren't quite as committed to equality as we thought we were - then we go through a series of rationalizations: 'Maybe it wasn't that bad.' That's the danger - that we explain everything away. It justifies our behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Racist Attitudes Are Still Ingrained | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...mortars were fired from within the crowded schoolyard and that Hamas is using civilians as human shields. The IDF gave the names of two Hamas combatants it says were killed inside the school - Imad and Hassan Abu Askar - who allegedly fired the mortars. But the IDF did not explain how it was able to identify them among the many casualties. Troops did not visit the school after the attack, nor did the IDF have access to a casualty list from Gaza's hospitals. (See pictures of Israel's deadly assault on Gaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.N.: No Hamas Fighters in Bombed Gaza School | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...addition to his larger-than-life persona, Antoine’s intellectual curiosity may explain why this always seemed to be the case...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather House Senior Remembered for Love of People and Music | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...TIME: You argue that the Jewish people are in a state of crisis, partly because of the extent to which the Holocaust dominates contemporary Jewish identity. Can you explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy? | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

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