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...housing market, it's the same old lonely story that it's been for two years:? propping up consumers' spirits - and spending - while the rest of the economy lies exhausted on the floor, still trying to struggle to its feet. Standing proud amid the glum procession of economic indicators and Wall Street selloffs in the past week have been stellar year-end numbers from the Commerce Department in housing starts (up 5 percent to a 1.835 million-unit annual rate in December, the highest since 1978), new home sales (up 3.5 percent to an annualized 1.08 million, a new record...
...walls around him tell the story of how he got here to this second-floor apartment in a wooded subdivision at the Army's Fort Stewart, near Hinesville, Ga. There's the framed letter from New York Governor George Pataki, thanking the former Marine for his service as a National Guardsman on Sept. 11, which consisted mainly of preventing distraught fire fighters and cops from rushing in to try to find their lost comrades. There are letters from the White House and the Pentagon, responding to his campaign last year to be allowed back on active duty, which, since...
Beginning in 1997, Gobodo-Madikizela interviewed De Kock for a total of 46 hours. Guards chained the prisoner to a metal stool bolted to the floor of the interrogation room; they gave Gobodo-Madikizela a chair on wheels so that she could roll herself out of range if he were to lunge...
...photographer and their two government-appointed minders. There's barely enough to feed his family of four. Deeply embarrassed, he would prefer to postpone lunch until after we've left. But the photographer wants to capture the family going about their everyday lives, so Nadam sits on the floor with his wife and two grown children and toys with his food. His face reddens in shame, and he avoids eye contact with his wife Zahwe, daughter Senaa and son Aadil...
While the first-years sprawl on the floor of a group study room in the early hours of Saturday morning, roommates Caroline C. Dixon and Joyce Jen, both ’04, sit across the library in adjacent cubicles...