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...lawyer's remarks contrasted with Rowe's own remarks earlier on Thursday. "I want my children," Rowe reportedly said during a 90-minute phone conversation with NBC-LA anchor Chuck Henry. (Read "What Happened to Michael Jackson's Millions...
...that while sales for the 20 most-expensive zip codes were down 8% in May, compared to a year ago, sales in the 20 cheapest were up 37%. Try to sell a house in Chula Vista and you're good to go - but don't expect much luck in La Jolla. Of course, what houses are selling for is a whole other question. Homes in those 20 least-expensive zips average sale pries are down 30%, while the high-end areas only saw an average drop of 12%. An uptick in sales hasn't affected all price points evenly...
...reach. Although Kirchner's Buenos Aires congressional slate lost to the more conservative opposition party, Union-Pro, he still gets a seat in the Chamber of Deputies because of proportional-voting rules. But Union-Pro leader and billionaire businessman Francisco de Narváez told the Buenos Aires daily La Nación that Kirchner "needs to step aside and let his wife be the nation's President and build some space for consensus." The President, he said, needs to read "these election results well." Other Latin Presidents should...
...been as disappointed with the magazine as I was with your paltry single page devoted to the Indian elections [June 1]. And it was a page that belittled India's achievement in holding the world's largest ever election, with minimal disruption and violence, and no controversies (à la hanging or pregnant chads). This election is a beacon of hope in a region that only seems to produce bad news from Nepal to Sri Lanka, Afghanistan to Burma. No wonder India is so disillusioned with the attitudes of the West. Like most people, Indians have long memories...
...makes good sense to give consumers of energy and health care information and incentives to deter us from overconsuming. But information has its limits. We all know exercise is good for us, but that doesn't get all of us off the La-Z-Boy. Incentives aren't everything either; wasting energy costs us money, but we do it all the time, and so do our factories and other ostensibly profit-maximizing businesses. Health care usually costs us money too, and even when co-payments are low, visiting the doctor is time-consuming and inconvenient, and staying in the hospital...