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...least moving again there, many at 30% to 40% off even last year's lowered prices. "In Los Angeles, one year ago, the median home price was $582,450; this September, it was $376,790," says Leslie Appleton-Young, chief economist for the California Association of Realtors. That may sound awful, particularly if you're the seller, but it may represent a clearance level - i.e., prices low enough to draw buyers - which the market needs in order to stabilize. Other helpful factors: banks are agreeing to short sales - i.e., selling below the mortgage amount - and renegotiating some mortgages. Still, foreclosures...
...better calling than public service. In college, sometimes I went back and forth and said maybe I should go strictly into business and do it through philanthropy. But I chose public service because it gave me a direct opportunity to have direct impact. This may sound silly, but I take pleasure in seeing that the streets are well paved, that we’re educating our kids—those things you don’t get on Wall Street...
...show programs, flowered shoes, and a pair of fairy wings. Amidst this chaos is an artist at work over her dressmaker mannequin. Lucy is adding her signature touch to the back of the dress, cutting out strips of black fabric and pinning them across an open back. The rhythmic sound of the sewing machine punctuates the silence before puttering to a stop. “Sometimes it doesn’t like stretchy fabrics,” she says, as she is forced to rethread the machine. But by four, the dress is finished. Half an hour before the show...
...face for politics and the wholesome look that gets the middle of the country fired up. The fact that she’s a woman, seen as a draw for disgruntled Hillary supporters and conservative women alike, certainly played a role in her selection, too.Palin even speaks in sound bites. As Peggy Noonan wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “She does not speak seriously but attempts to excite sensation.” As her interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric have shown, when pressed beyond the clever quip she is at a loss for words...
...News and vote for McCain. “At least tell me you still think Sarah Palin is Satan,” I pleaded. She shook her head and muttered something about the liberal media distorting things, but I couldn‘t quite make it out over the sound of our friendship crashing...