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...seeing the weakest prices in years on the east end of Long Island, where Wall Streeters have traditionally bought their weekend homes. For example, last week a seller dropped the price on a five-bedroom, 6 1/2-bath, 7,000-sq.-ft. home, located on an acre of land, to just under $3.3 million, down $450,000 from its original asking price in July. "Owners are more motivated to sell than in past market downturns," says Hoffman...
...nanny state. It's a perception strongest in rural areas, where many farmers feel suffocated by bureaucracy. Sometimes, their grievances sound more like longing for a bygone era, when farmhands weren't glued to their mobiles and trampers couldn't expect a payout for injuring themselves on private land. But it's also a case of where there's smoke there's fire: Clark could never be mistaken for a proponent of small government...
...Clark, meanwhile, is struggling to seduce voters with lofty talk on combating climate change. The notion that the planet is on the brink of catastrophe from this amorphous force is a hard sell in New Zealand, where water is abundant and lush pastoral land rolls on forever. Clark wants New Zealand, which produces 0.4% of the world's carbon emissions, to set the pace on emissions cuts, just as it was the first country to grant women the vote (1893) and the first Western-allied nation to legislate itself into nuclear-free status (1987). "New Zealand...
Americanness at Issue In response to Peter Beinart's question "Is He American Enough?" [Oct. 20], my question is: What is an American? My idea of an American is one who upholds the laws of the land and leads a morally convicted life free of prejudices of any kind. A.B. Madyun, OAKLAND, CALIF...
...accountable to its people. Nevertheless, it resulted in 34 separate amendments - more than 1,000 individual changes to Hawaii's state constitution - that included the addition of the untranslated phrase, "Ua mau ke ea o ka 'aina i ka pono" in the constitution's preamble - "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness." It was a sweeping victory for Native Hawaiian rights and culture...