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...equation is less than impressive." Nearly a third of existing-home sales are currently to first-time homebuyers - a wildly disproportionate amount. What happens to those buyers once the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit evaporates at the end of this year? Even with home prices a steal in many parts of the country, whether demand will hold up - especially with the countervailing force of tighter credit - is a real question mark. (Read: "Home Sales Perk Up, but Expensive Houses Languish...
...they have a democratic mandate. Confront them? That risks casting them as martyrs, victims who tell unpalatable truths. Expose the racism that often underlies professions of patriotism? Well, yes, but that assumes voters choose far-right parties in ignorance of their views, rather than because they strike a chord. Steal their nationalist thunder by taking tough lines on issues such as immigration? This smacks of capitulation to the very ideas critics seek to defeat...
...York City jewelry shop, where she wants to buy two gold chains. "You've got such a nice selection," she tells the salesman. Always butter 'em up. Gault borrows another sales technique by inching into the seller's personal space - not in a menacing, I'm-going-to-steal-something way but in an enthusiastic, we're-on-the-same-team way. At first the salesman looks suspicious but quickly decides that she's serious about buying (and that this isn't a stickup...
...defendant is a hard-core, habitual, unrepentant offender," Reynolds said. "Just because the defendant likes music doesn't make it okay to steal...
...Boston Globe, Middlesex Assistant District Attorney Daniel Bennett said on Monday that Jiggetts, Jabrai J. Copney, 20, and Jason Aquino, 23, arrived at Harvard from New York on May 18. Armed with a 9 mm handgun, they met Cambridge resident Justin Cosby, 20, in the Kirkland Annex basement to steal $1,000 in drug money...