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...another troubling note, some economist question whether the lower mortgage rates would even boost sales or home values. A 2006 study of mortgage rates and New York City housing prices going back to 1975 by Lucas Finco of Quadlet Consulting found no correlation between lower mortgage rates and higher housing prices, or vice versa. "The relationship between mortgage rates and home prices is pretty obscure," says Jack Guttentag, a professor emeritus of finance at the Wharton School of Business...
...knew even less about him a few months after I started than when I began. It was like facing the wall of a Swiss bank vault. Fortunately, I then had access to his letters, and a human being began to come alive for me. Going back to your question, I’m really only interested in writing about people whose works I consider to be marked by genius. For me, Le Corbusier’s architecture was fascinating, and that’s what sparked my curiosity about Le Corbusier the human being. THC: Why is yours the first...
...musical, “Chess really ends up taking a backseat to the international intrigue and romance,” Bala says. Amid the romance and competition, political tensions stemming from the Cold War are a constant presence. “Characters are confronted with identity issues, the question of, ‘Can you really be independent in these times?,’ and the feeling that any day [the War] could end,” Bala says. “It’s hard for our generation to understand 20 years out, but now is a particularly...
...spring of 2009, serves as a model for a General Education course under United States in the World. But while food-related classes are more common, they are scattered throughout the University. The consequent lack of cross-departmental communication may be slowing the development of the field. The question remains whether food studies should stay nestled within traditional disciplines or be incoporated into a formalized study of food at Harvard.“I’m really of two minds about this,” says former New York Times food editor and current Wall Street Journal Eating...
...with both critical and limited commercial acclaim. It is clear then that people are more comfortable with the intersection of divergent styles than ever before, if signaled by nothing else than the sizable crowd for Girl Talk this past weekend at notoriously conservative Harvard. Given this comfort, the question now is how to move past the novelty of mashing up Mariah Carey and James Taylor, avoid another descent into nostalgia, and continue the eternal forward march of creation and discovery. Remarkably, in a security-obsessed era typified by Bloombergian, antiseptic New York and Big Brother London, people are leaning more...