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...prove worthwhile--as long as you're careful. As Peter Miller of Realtytimes.com explains, you need to crunch the numbers to make sure the value of your new home will at least match your purchase, teardown and rebuild costs--plus leave you some compensation: "A typical profit margin should be on the order of 10 to 20 percent...
...posturing of Republicans and Democrats is symptomatic of a larger identity crisis within America. We seem, as a country, to be searching for our role in a very rapidly changing world, in which we are, for now, the only superpower. There is very little margin for error, and new challenges are constantly arising. Regardless of which party wins in November, or whether America follows a Republican, Democratic, Liberal, or Conservative path, our increasingly volatile and realigned political system will be saddled with real dangers that can’t be easily addressed with polling, platforms or sound bites...
PREDICTION: Harvard has won eight straight against Princeton, and it’s safe to pencil in a ninth. Expect the Crimson to flirt with breaking its largest margin of victory against the Tigers...
...Harvard’s cornerbacks, Keith Howell (6’0) and Gary Sonkur (5’9), cede fewer inches to opposing wide receivers than Crimson defensive backs have in the past, making O’Neil’s margin for error even smaller than last year, when Sonkur and Benny Butler ’04 (5’8) prowled the defensive backfield...
...while Mittleman exceeded his benchmark in domestic bonds by a similar margin as last fiscal year, he and Samuels will see a smaller paycheck after the management company board voted in March to lower its maximum compensation below last year’s top salaries...