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...hers by birth. Swinton was born into a clan of warrior aristocrats whose Scottish home dates back to the ninth century (they supposedly earned the family name by clearing the area of wild boar), and who served prominently in every major British military and political skirmish for a thousand years. One recent ancestor invented the tank; another helped invent television. Over the millennium the Swintons were deeded huge swatches of prime Scottish real estate; Tilda's father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, a.k.a. the Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, lives in the family estate, Kimmerghame...
...April unemployment figures will be out later this week. Six hundred thousand people lost jobs last month, according to most estimates. Two and a half million people have lost work since the beginning of the year. A housing recovery cannot occur in the presence of the massive collapse in unemployment. The devastation of the potential home buying base is too great. Many of the people who lose jobs will also lose their houses and that increases the inventory of unsold homes...
Renovations to make the 45 Mt. Auburn St. basement usable are estimated to cost between three hundred and four hundred thousand dollars, according to a presentation given to the Council by Nuni...
...social space purchase made by the UC would likely have to be funded mostly by the capital campaign. It is unlikely that the Council will finish the year with more than a few thousand dollars outside their reserve fund...
...care. I don’t care that it saves trees—because a lot more die from advertising, napkins, and the farming techniques of South America. I don’t care that the Kindle’s carbon footprint is less than the thousand books I can fit inside it. I don’t care that it reads like a real book—because I still like real books. I don’t even care that it’s convenient and easy to carry. That sounds like a sales pitch for a handgun.As...