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...that the decline is actually healthy for the city?and the government should leave well enough alone. "Get the pain out of the way and let the market find the natural level," says Nicholas Brooke of Insignia Brooke property consultants. He estimates prices could drop by another 5-10%, absent outside interference. Brooke points to a similar, and ineffective, halt to government land sales in 1998 as evidence that the new policy is misguided. Indeed, past attempts to micro-manage the market seem to have done more harm than good. In 1997, Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa embarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scraping the Bottom | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

...another month,” Koski-Karell says. “Two weeks is kind of the minimum for the kind of work we like to do.” Koski-Karell, Brown and Morange make up the “Kirkland Brewing Cooperative.” Brown is absent from the competition, leaving Koski-Karell and Morange to defend their beer...

Author: By Kenyon S.m.weaver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 1st Annual Harvard Beer-Brewing Competition | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

Needless to say, I was shocked, but what could I do? Seven weeks without working on the paper? That’s a long time to be absent, and I worried that I might lose some of my writing skills and ability to generate coherent ideas for the paper...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rahooligan: Thanks, Larry (Or, My Seven Weeks Off) | 11/6/2002 | See Source »

...four games Agustsdottir was absent, Harvard played three ranked opponents. Shields had at least ten saves in each of those three games, but the Crimson lost them all. She was Harvard’s sole representative on the All-Tournament Team for the Harvard Invitational, largely for her efforts against Penn State...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Goalkeepers Make A Net Gain | 11/6/2002 | See Source »

...Shiite and everyone against the Kurds. Though a coalition government representing all the major groups sounds attractive on paper, it would only set the stage for anarchy as each region, religion and ethnicity tried to grab as much as it could. The strongest and most brutal faction will prevail absent constant outside intervention. Only the total occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces can wrest democracy from these conditions, an expensive solution that seems guaranteed to breed Iraqi anti-Americanism...

Author: By Ebon Y. Lee, | Title: Elections Can Wait | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

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