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...place opened in stages from 1962 to 1969, Lincoln Center turned out to be not just an island but an acropolis. At its northern and western boundaries, it sat on a platform 24 ft. (7.3 m) above the surrounding streets, as though it would just as soon not touch down with the locals. Those streets, after all, were so authentically funky that some of them had served as locations for the film version of West Side Story. When you consider that the Jets and the Sharks used to flash their switchblades not far from where the Metropolitan Opera now stands...
...losses. Under these circumstances the value of homes will continue to fall. And as prices decline, the current homeowner rescue plan will keep people in their houses using mortgage assistance programs without helping them pay down the principle on their loans. These balances will get further out of touch with the overall market each day as the economy goes through a natural cycle. At least allowing them to go into foreclosure would permit the housing market to fall based on the fundamentals of supply and demand. (See pictures of Cleveland struggling to weather the housing crisis...
...haven’t planned anything specific in connection with our sister unions, but we’re keeping in touch,” Jaeger said. “We’re definitely all supportive of each other’s struggles, and we’re all facing some of the same kinds of concerns...
...Afghanistan. There has been too much of a focus on the fight, he says, and not enough on development. "I wanted to show the conflict between ordinary Afghans and the foreign soldiers who don't know how to listen." Even if the message is heavy, his touch is light, a tactic to make the criticism easier to swallow. In one scene the soldiers fantasize about having multiple wives, while the refugee-clan patriarch, who has three, drowns his sorrows in opium smoke. Each wife has her own abandoned tank - call it a postapocalyptic, polygamous, Afghan trailer park - but the patriarch...
...dying seconds of Saturday night’s game, Harvard freshman Brogan Berry’s runner bounced off the glass before seeming to touch every inch of metal. As the ball swirled around the rim, the anxious faces of the Crimson players on the bench told the whole story: the team simply needed the shot to fall. But the nervousness soon turned to dejection. As the ball fell, not through the net but into the grip of Columbia’s Judie Lomax, Harvard lost its grip on the ability to control its own destiny.Saturday...