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Housing subsidies have side effects too. For one thing, they push us to buy rather than rent. There's a positive side to this, as homeowners tend to take better care of their property and their neighborhood than renters do. But there's a negative one too, particularly in times of economic upheaval like this, as homeownership becomes an economic ball and chain that keeps workers from moving to areas where jobs are more plentiful. Subsidies also tempt us to buy more house than we would otherwise, a wasteful use of capital - not to mention of the energy it takes...
...Ting, born Dec. 1, 1983, and - when he's not helping organize marches on Washington - works as an associate at a private-equity firm that he isn't quite convinced he wants to name. Like many of the others who helped organize the march, Ting was shocked - deeply, if rather naively - by the passage last year in California of Proposition 8, which ended the court-appointed practice of equal marriage rights for gay couples in that state. (See a visual history of the gay-rights movement...
Meanwhile, mid-career gay activists who run the day-to-day gay movement from the East Coast - men and women in their late 30s to early 50s who slogged away at gay causes during the Bush interregnum - were rather dumbstruck at the idea that young gays wanted to march on Washington. "Pointless," one seasoned gay activist told me. "If Cleve and David Mixner have really inspired so many kids to work on our behalf - finally, by the way, because I think these kids spent the early part of this decade playing Nintendo or something - why don't they tell them...
...about. "We strongly oppose the idea of remunerating students for having fulfilled the basic requirement of attending school," says Philippe Vrand, president of the Parents of Public School Students group. "We should spend this money making sure vocational students who wanted to learn cooking can get into those programs rather than being shunted into car repair because there was no room left. Instead, students are being paid off to compensate [for] their boredom." (Read "The Class: A Year in the Blackboard Jungle...
...propaganda officials. Online discussion is managed by censors, and the country is one of the world's leading jailers of journalists and bloggers, according to the press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders. It is not those limitations on the media that China's propaganda ministers are trying to modernize. Rather, it's the ability of the political party to have its message heard. An August Qiu Shi article complained about the dominance of the global media by a small number of conglomerates like Murdoch's News Corp. and Time Warner. But in China, oversight of CCTV and Xinhua is consolidated...