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Malls are only the tip of the commercial real estate iceberg. Large office buildings in the nation's biggest cities are experiencing growing vacancy rates and a raft of tenants who are behind on their rent payments, or worse, have defaulted. Replacing the tenants is difficult without dropping rents significantly which further compromises the ability of these office building owners to make their own mortgage payments. In is not unlike the problem mall owners face as retail outlets close due to lack of sales...
...April 15 was tax day, people across the country—from Washington, D.C., to Boston—took this opportunity to get their tea bagging on. Whether wearing tea bags as strange hats or harassing CNN reporters (tip: Wonkette), conservatives have been out protesting the Obama administration's tax and spend liberalness. While last time according to Wikipedia "the protest was not a dispute of high taxes," this time it very much...
...tight-fisted grip on the Ivy League championship reduced to a finger-tip pinch, the Harvard men’s tennis team will face trying times this weekend. With its first home loss in the Ivies since 2005 and its Ancient Eight destiny out of its hands, the Crimson (9-8, 1-1 Ivy) will try to reclaim the initiative on the road with this weekend’s double-header against Princeton (9-8, 1-2 Ivy) and Penn (9-9, 0-3 Ivy). Following last weekend’s narrow defeat at the hands of Ivy League leaders...
...sustained the area's residents; the rocky hillsides grow few crops. But a lucrative trade in the region's cedar forests funded satellite-TV dishes and fancy four-wheel-drive trucks. Local lore holds that the fight with the Americans began in earnest when the U.S., acting on a tip from a rival tribe, dropped a bomb on the lumber mill of a local chief, killing some of his relatives and leading to a campaign of vengeance...
...appeal. In his impassioned testimony last week, he said of the tribunal, "From an ice cube they have tried to find an iceberg." Human rights watchdogs, however, say the evidence presented at Fujimori's 16-month trial, held on a police base with judges presiding, is more likely the tip of the iceberg of abuse that occurred during the early years of Fujimori's authoritarian rule. The abuses "were committed as part of a broad, systematic policy of executions and forced disappearances that [Fujimori] ordered and carried out through intelligence services," charges Maria McFarland, a senior researcher at Human Rights...