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Vinny and Karla Trovato moved to Boise at the end of last year but only by finding a renter to live in their Las Vegas home. Now they live in the suburb of Eagle. The neighborhood, with 11 decorated model homes and four sold houses, sits like a ghost town; both the building and the selling have ground to a halt. "We were supposed to have another neighbor, but his financing didn't come through," says Vinny. It's not the neighborhood full of life he had imagined his children growing up in. "Everybody just pushed the pause button," says...
...Wells agreed to forgive the rest of the couple's debt. The sticking point was a second lien - a $75,000 home-equity loan - owned by a different division of Wells. The buyer got spooked and walked. The Lupos have since moved into a rental house and now live in fear of the bank coming after them. "It's humiliating when you work so hard," says Scott. "But one day, we'll get back to where we were...
...fact that settlers live in compounds protected by machine-gun-toting guards pinpoints another tragedy. Israel needs peace and security. It will get neither while it confiscates land, restricts travel and otherwise degrades Palestinians. John Bertsche, NORMAL...
...character is two-sided to an extreme and paradoxical degree. On the one hand, we are sober and practical and commonsensical, but on the other hand, we are wild and crazy speculators. The full-blown amateur spirit derives from this same paradox. Even as we indulge our native chutzpah - Live the dream! To hell with the naysayers! - as a practical matter, it also requires a profound humility, since the amateur must throw himself into situations where he's uncertain and even ignorant, and therefore obliged to figure out new ways of seeing problems and fresh ways of solving them...
...However, the cultural entrenching of familial respect does live on in its own modern formulation. Each year, countless Indian-Americans voyage back to the motherland in hopes of preserving the unity of families now separated by oceans. The state of “family” and its importance in India is thus seen in a new and modern light. For immigrants in general, relatives function as a symbol of stability in a foreign land. And undoubtedly, one maintains greater respect for those back home when seeing them requires 10,000 miles of travel. However, emigration, too, is a form...