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Shortly after the turn of the century, though, the housing boom began to spin out of control. As incomes and employment in Ireland rose, cheap credit and tax incentives fueled a buying frenzy that pushed up both prices and housing stock: the cost of an average house rose almost three-fold in the decade through 2006, while some 40% of the country's housing was built in the last decade, according to Brian Devine, an economist at Dublin-based stockbrokers NCB. At the Grange, a swish 11-acre (4.5 ha) development in Dublin, realtors sold 15 luxury apartments a week...
...turn this unified ambition into reality, Havard will look to draw as much experience as possible from tournaments before the Ivy season in February. With four matchups against top 25 teams–including No. 5 Missouri, No. 19 Old Dominion, and No. 23 Virginia at the Northeast Collegiate Duals this month—Harvard will have its hands full during the winter...
...doing, but we had a full plate of other races to call at CBS, so I was trying not to get too distracted because I had to deal with the senate and governor races and the remaining presidential races. At CBS, we knew that [the election] was going to turn to Obama at the 11 o’clock hour. When it was about 10:00 p.m. we had a discussion in the back room to make that call. So 11:00 p.m. was a little anti-climactic for us. The time that we really all stopped and listened...
...president, was it preposterous simply to want it? I asked Caleb. We were on the Mall, to the east of the Washington Monument. Is it okay just to want it? I asked. How would you respond to that? “‘I chuckle as I turn my head to look at the Capitol,’” Caleb said. And he did just that. CLARIFICATIONThe Nov. 12 magazine article "Kids Who Would Be King" featured a photo spread of Caleb L. Weatherl '10 in which he is shown wearing a campaign-style button with...
...because you can relate to him at all, but because his desire to hear his own voice has saved the section from the most uncomfortable silences imaginable at least three times a class for the entire semester. Give that kid a hug. A final piece of advice: turn the volume down on your laptop. Nothing says “I’m not listening to a word you’re saying” like the ping of Gchat. That, and snoring...