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...manager of a Dubai real estate brokerage, Imran Mohamed, a Scot of Pakistani descent, had a front-row seat at one of the most incredible property bubbles ever. Early last year, a few months before the height of the emirate's boom, he fought his way through the lines at the opening sale of a new waterfront condominium development. Such launches always attracted crowds of investors eager to get the first shot at a new offering, but the buzz that day was especially intense, remembers Mohamed. (He asks that his real name not be used because his company...
...with that said, there are people like Dorothy Height. I mean, every time I see this woman - 93, 97, I don't know how old she is, but she's over 90 - and she is just as engaged substantively in the work of changing the lives of people as she was when she worked in the civil rights movement. She is in her wheelchair, scooted up to the table, coherently, clearly, concisely articulating the values of today in the same way she did 40, 50 years ago. I hope that I'm that cogent at her age and able...
...rest of the world might never understand the violence Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. At the height of his power, just before the 2002 cease-fire, Prabhakaran was the unquestioned leader of a de facto government that controlled more than 15,000 sq km of territory in the north and east of Sri Lanka and had its own system of taxes, roads and courts. By the final weeks of conflict, he was believed to be using thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields against the advance of the Sri Lankan military...
...Season Aspen. Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colo., is celebrating 120 years of bedding guests. Built at the height of Colorado's silver rush by Jerome B. Wheeler, the co-owner of New York's Macy's department store, the hotel was meant to bring a touch of European luxury to the mountains. There's no skiing in Aspen this time of year, but there's plenty of hiking, fly fishing, biking and hot-air ballooning to be had. For its anniversary Hotel Jerome is offering a three-night History Buff package, with a guided tour of Independence Pass...
...sequence,” but that residents had managed to use the meeting to shift the focus of the BRA’s planning “to human beings from grass and asphalt.” Other neighborhood residents voiced concerns about the density and height of the envisioned commercial development in the area—some suggested that the entire area south of Western Ave. should be made residential—and others questioned whether the neighborhood had a need for more parks, given the existing open spaces in the area and the older age demographics of Allston-Brighton.Glavin...