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...just a few years. But tenants fought back and won in a court decision that also undercut plans for using city tax abatements to further sweeten returns on apartments pushed into luxury decontrol. The upshot, according to a recent Deutsche Bank analysis, is that the property, purchased in late 2006 for $5.4 billion, "would fetch less than $2 billion if sold into the current dislocated market." It added that the most natural buyer was MetLife, the insurer and original owner, in part because it represented "patient capital...
Brown’s victory strips the Democrats of their supermajority in the Senate and reins in their ability to pass legislation overhauling the country’s health care system—a long-time goal of the late Senator Kennedy. Brown made his opposition to health care reform and his ability to hinder the bill one of the hallmarks of his campaign...
Written while Segal was on leave from Yale in the late 1960s, the story follows the budding relationship between preppy Harvard student Oliver Barrett IV and working-class Radcliffe student Jennifer Cavilleri, who dies not long after their marriage...
...Brown ended up winning with a solid 5-point margin, riding a late surge of support. Though he ran a largely upbeat campaign, the mood of the electorate was angry - as evidenced by extraordinarily heavy turnout for a special election. At times, his campaign sounded like an echo of the very themes that carried Obama to victory a little over a year ago. Brown had run against "business as usual" in Washington, and his supporters on Tuesday night chanted, "Yes we can." In case the point still wasn't clear, one of his supporters held a hand-lettered sign...
...late 1970s, postmodernist architecture, and its plundering of historical trends, overtook the more austere and orthodox midcentury Modernism. But the latter style's popularity evidently shows no signs of losing ground. Established in 2001 as a four-day event, Modernism Week hosted about 20 events last year, and the number will jump to more than 40 this year. Attendance is expected to top 9,000. (See pictures of luxury private islands...