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...rate. As long as the employment stays basically full--say, under 5.5%--I see no major crisis in the housing market. Yes, we have a subprime issue. Yes, we have a lot of investors who got hung out, but I don't see the crisis the way the media portray it. And consequently, as long as employment stays strong, I don't see any issue as far as rental housing is concerned. Our apartment company continues to rent at 95%. We continue to see same-store-sales increases from one year to the next. I don't think that...
...academics. In his talk, entitled “‘Slaves at Large’: Slavery and the Emancipation Process in the U.S.” Hahn, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, suggested that the divide between North and South was not as distinct as historians portray it, and that emancipation was a longer and more gradual process. Hahn emphasized the importance of looking at the Civil War period with this fresh point of view, in order to explore ideas usually overlooked. For example, rather than looking at the Northern emancipation and the Southern emancipation as distinct...
...pressure from parents who encourage their daughters to pursue the training. Kumar adds that because of the role that dance plays in Indian culture, “Kalpanam” dancers and crew face an additional challenge. “It is a big responsibility to portray it in the correct form,” she says...
...society and handed humans the materials to catalyze progress. Gray details both the demise of Enlightenment thought and its resurrection in “modern revolutionary movements” while tearing apart the banners of present-day neoconservatives, Islamic terrorists, and liberal humanists alike. It may seem counterintuitive to portray Hitler as a child of the Enlightenment, but Gray traces a connection between Hitler’s attempt to remake Germany by force and eliminate Jews who would hinder the triumphal arrival of the Third Reich and Enlightenment-era utopian thinking. Gray also argues that radical Islam follows...
...line, and it’s reasonable that somewhat excessive measures could come into play. In all honesty, what is the real difference (disregarding legality, of course) between a Red Bull for us and a steroid for them? The motivations are the same, and the attempt to portray steroids some sort of perversion of our own hyper-striving culture is an unfair...