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...teaching, nursing and other community-service jobs. Joe Holland turned down generous offers after graduating from Harvard Law School a few years ago to move to Harlem to help build up the community. Now the owner of a restaurant and a travel agency, Holland has also founded a shelter for the homeless. ''I know that coming to Harlem shut the door to Wall Street,'' says he. ''But I can look at a healthy man, a full-time travel agent, who came through my homeless program two years ago strung out on crack. I have absolutely no regrets...
...that the bubble of financial speculation has burst, people should - and do - feel entitled to accept more modest aspirations. The real estate market was a prime example of a 1980s torture track. Americans started thinking of housing as a vehicle for getting rich, rather than as just shelter, and it became an obsession. Author Ann Beattie, a chronicler of the baby boom, fled Manhattan in the mid-1980s for Charlottesville, Va., declaring, ''I could not spend the rest of my life listening to people talk about real estate. It's a constant, boring, hysterical subject...
...tiny mountainside village of Sipkovica, Fekrige Muharemi figured that the best place to protect her family would be on the ground floor of her home, a recently built, two-story whitewashed house with thick concrete-block walls. She even invited two other families--15 children and 10 adults--to shelter with her. The illusion did not last long. The 36-year-old mother of two was pouring Turkish coffee in small china cups for her guests when the shell hit. It tore into the upstairs bedroom, blasting a 10-ft.-wide hole in the outer wall and shattering an interior...
...collecting. Their boring, old-world holdings--industrials, retail and the like--remain the "antitech," but these days that's a plus: low p/e ratios, slow growth and sane market caps. Now that big is bad and growth is yesterday's (or tomorrow's) news, small caps will provide some shelter from the tech storm...
...organizations in the area have not characterized it as such. It doesn't look like ethnic cleansing. Rather, it's a large number of civilians temporarily fleeing a battleground. Most have not declared themselves refugees, and say they'll return when the situation is normalized. They're taking shelter with relatives and friends rather than humanitarian agencies, so it appears that they see their situation as temporary. But if fighting resumes, it could easily become a humanitarian crisis. So once again, the question is whether the government in Macedonia is now able to take political steps to consolidate its short...