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...homes are expected to change hands this year, generating sales commissions of $60 billion. Predictably, the big Realtors aren't going without a fight. In response to the new threat, the National Association of Realtors (N.A.R.) has proposed guidelines that would restrict online agents' access to the industry's lifeblood: multiple real estate listings--the Holy Grail for home shoppers--which are maintained on the association's regional databases...
...Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, last week's annual Policy Address should have been an opportunity to brag. The economy has revived after seven lean years and the scary days of SARS. Millions of mainland tourists are streaming across the border. And prices for property, the economy's lifeblood, have zoomed up by more than 30% in the last year. Yet last week, Tung stood at the rostrum of the Legislative Council looking like he'd rather be in the dentist's chair. "We fell short of thinking what people think and addressing people's pressing needs," he confessed...
...would like to see a pledge from the administration to move the library into the priority record for funding, because the library is the lifeblood of every intellectual pursuit in the University,” Coleman said after the meeting...
...jibe with our own particular reality. America's endless supply of niche media outlets has given us the option of selecting a news source that suits our specific political ideology, leaving us with a narrower perspective and a brazen contempt for any opposing viewpoints. Individualism and dissent are the lifeblood of our democracy. We have to remember, however, that we are all in this together, and the cacophony of so many angry voices vilifying one another is stifling informed debate rather than promoting it. Tyler P. Burke New York City One irony of the technological age is how a plethora...
...jibe with our own particular reality. America's endless supply of niche media outlets has given us the option of selecting a news source that suits our specific political ideology, leaving us with a narrower perspective and a brazen contempt for opposing viewpoints. Individualism and dissent are the lifeblood of our democracy. We have to remember, however, that we are all in this together, and the cacophony of so many angry voices vilifying one another is stifling informed debate rather than promoting...