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...that many developers may be reluctant to cough up. "20% is astronomically high!," says one analyst, who did not wish to be named. "What builder would give away 20% when they're doing 5% or 10% [pretax] margins? If they gave away 20% of the house price, they'd lose money on every house." He sees a 2% or 5% charge being more reasonable...
...It’s nice to always be able to win and have things always go your way. But it’s important to be able to face adversity and be able to lose and try to come back from that,” Magnarelli says...
...back of a black sedan, speeding toward the Comedy Central studios for a taping of The Colbert Report. The night before, Colbert had basically swallowed then Senate hopeful Harold Ford Jr. whole, like a boa constrictor eating a hamster. Spitzer, who by his own description has "nothing left to lose," was hoping to avoid the same fate by coming up with a clever line...
...unclear how ambitious Spitzer still is, if he is ambitious at all. "When you go through what I've gone through, you come to appreciate who matters and what and why," he says, referring to his family. "But you also lose a bit of the edge that leads you to tilt at windmills. Maybe you might call that ambition. Silda used to say, 'Being right isn't the only thing.' I would get so caught up in the ambition of proving to the world we're right. You can destroy yourself that...
Opponents of heightened surveillance criticize its supporters for paranoia and fear mongering. Ironically, it is because of their own delusional paranoia about a revival of McCarthyism and an impending Orwellian state that they so easily lose faith in the ability of a government built on individual liberty to safeguard that tenet...