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...Read Kurt Andersen's RESET blog on TIME.com...
...Author Kurt Andersen's new book, Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America, examines the economic, political and cultural opportunities to be found in the wake of the financial crises. In this excerpt, the first of five on TIME.com, he glances back through history to see how national destinies can change...
...delight of at engagement of daughter of to son of another distasteful real estate tycoon • lawsuit of against author who claimed actual worth of is a fraction of the billions endlessly and nauseatingly boasted about by is thrown out of court • reference to in new book by Kurt Andersen as "a clownish reality-show artifact" is not appreciated...
...There's a lot of questions here about how real the reductions are and whether they should be traded as actual emissions cuts," says Kurt Davies, research director for Greenpeace U.S.A...
...lately the situation has gone from bad to, well, perverse. "One of the frustrating paradoxes of the recession is falling real estate markets and rising property taxes," says Kurt Wenner, research director at Florida Tax Watch in Tallahassee. A 2008 state reform, as well as another scheduled to go into effect next year, has reduced some of Florida's property-tax burden by making the cap more generous and accessible to more residents. But because of arcane provisions in the homestead law, government appraisers can tell a homeowner that although his house's current market value may be as depressed...