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...happened as a result of an unprecedented configuration of financial and technological circumstances. New industrial printing techniques meant you could print lots of books cheaply; a modern capitalist marketplace had evolved in which you could sell them; and for the first time there was a large, increasingly literate, relatively well-off urban middle class to buy and read them. Once those conditions were in place, writers like Defoe and Richardson showed up to take advantage of them...
...neighbors here, that I know of, has suffered the calamities affecting many Americans - home foreclosure, bankruptcy, a precipitous plunge into debt, homelessness and poverty. Still, the anxiety, the uneasy sense that things are changing, that dreams are on hold and options more limited, is palpable. Everyone, even the relatively well-off, talks about lost savings and a newfound frugality. (See pictures of a retirement paradise lost...
...there's still not much besides sugar, pork and 1956 Chevrolets. This band practicing in the cramped living room--Los Reyes '73 (the Kings of '73)--was famous decades ago but traveled so much abroad that it fell out of the limelight. Now the band has new members, neither well-off nor famous: just another group of ridiculously skilled Cubans trying to hit a seam in a tightening music market...
...Life Without Credit" [Nov. 3], Bill Powell is spot on in identifying what this financial mess is all about: too much debt. But it is distressing that the only proposed solutions involve rewarding more debt. Let's, at least for the short term, raise taxes on well-off corporations and wealthy individuals, stop senseless wars financed by debt and eliminate the income-tax deductions for home-mortgage interest. Plus, don't artificially lower interest rates - this punishes those who saved sensibly. And we must all prioritize our spending wisely. I'd rather have fewer mortgage brokers and more architects...
...resources. Only 100 of roughly 1,500 students from grades five to eight benefit from CityStep, and in the past few years, the schools with which the organization has collaborated include Graham and Parks and Cambridgeport—two of the district’s financially well-off schools with high performance ratings on the MCAS...