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...recently families had moved had a particularly pronounced effect on the results. Among families that had moved in the past few years, the difference between living in an owned or rented home was significant. But as families stayed in one place longer, the difference started going away. After five years, the difference was insignificant for families living in apartments and town homes, and after 10 years, it was also insignificant for those in traditional single-family houses. "For people who have stayed put for a long time, there's really no difference between ownership and rental," says Barker. One theory...
...many things, but helping the nation's children doesn't necessarily appear to be one of them. "You can't conclude that by making more people into homeowners you can cause all these other good things to happen," says Barker, "because maybe these people are different in the first place...
...Harvard Yard” to expensive clothing will entrench Harvard’s elitist image and discourage potential students who aren’t from affluent backgrounds from applying. Because the clothing is expensive, the argument goes, these prospective applicants will be convinced that Harvard really is a place for the privileged alone. But all things considered, it seems highly unlikely that the Harvard Yard clothing line will do anything to discourage applications. Harvard licenses its name to a wide variety of products across many different price ranges—and unlike the readily affordable fleeces and T-shirts that...
...reform’s proponents place some of the blame for the financial crisis on insufficient shareholder oversight. They argue that opening boards to stockholder influence is necessary to increase accountability to those who own shares in the company...
...largest cemeteries in the world, with millions of graves, and being an hour's drive from central Tehran, the authorities may have thought this piece of desert would be the perfect place for opposition martyrs to lie in obscurity. But on an afternoon in late August, several mourners milling about Plot 257 were able to point to Agha-Soltan's grave (Row 41, No. 32), where there is recently turned earth, a puddle at one side and strewn plastic water bottles at the perimeter. First-time visitors can get word-of-mouth directions from opposition sympathizers who have taken...