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...bottom finally fell out, many investors found themselves holding properties they didn't want or couldn't afford. Others found themselves with nothing at all. Only 70% of the off-plan projects will end up being built, according to McKinnon. More than half of all developers have simply shut up shop or been delisted by real estate regulators; more reputable developers are consolidating projects and offering investors in canceled developments ownership in different locations...
...Herzog (Every Man for Himself and God Against All, aka The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser), Terence Malick (Days of Heaven) or Wim Wenders (Kings of the Road) - though it must be acknowledged that Wenders would eventually win in 1984 for Paris, Texas. Meanwhile, films from further afield were practically shut out by the Jury. Despite the Indian film industry's prodigious output, it was nearly impossible to get a Bollywood film screened in competition. Auteurs from elsewhere in Asia, while well-received at the festival, have gone largely Palme-less, with the notable exceptions of Akira Kurusawa (who shared...
...Schools. He added that four students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School—the city’s only public high school—have displayed “flu-like symptoms.” The school district’s Chief Operating Officer, Jim Maloney, said that shutting down King Open School, which is a K-8 school, was not necessary. “The guidelines from CDC are that we don’t need to shut down the schools,” he said. “Every day this week we had greater than...
Critics Should Shut Up - Or Else For a democracy, Sri Lanka's recent record on press freedom is an embarrassment. Journalists who dared question the government (and not just over the military campaign) have been threatened, roughed up, or worse. The Jan. 8 murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge, a crusading editor - and TIME contributor - was an especially low point. In recent months, as the fighting intensified, journalists and international observers were kept well away, ensuring very little reporting on the military's harsh tactics and the civilian casualties...
...know things are getting weird when Britain's largest mass-market daily, the Sun, co-opts a regicidal 17th century republican who shut down Parliament at gunpoint as an avatar of democracy. But Oliver Cromwell's angry exhortation to MPs supplied the paper's front-page headline yesterday: "In the Name...