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...stick, though, owing to the broader economic downturn. This time around, a first-time homebuyer tax credit is giving a huge boost to the market - nearly a third of buyers now fall into that camp. If the feds don't extend that tax credit when it sunsets at the end of November, will the current housing-recovery momentum peter? It's a great question with an unknowable answer...
...Furthermore, just because house prices overall may be rebounding, that doesn't mean everyone benefits. Looking at the Case-Shiller data broken down by house price makes clear that the high end of the housing market is still in trouble. For low- and mid-tier houses - roughly, those costing less than $430,000 - prices in June rose between 2.3% and 2.6%. For more-expensive houses, prices nudged up just...
...end of his freshman year, Kennedy was suspended after having another student take a Spanish exam in his place. He spent the next two years serving in the U.S. Army as a military policeman in Paris before re-enrolling at Harvard in the fall...
...During his early career days he was a Kennedy,” Ellwood said, “but by the end he was the Senator." — Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...under very, very difficult circumstances," he prickles when asked about it. He took the loss hard. He skulked around the Senate for months, casting wary eyes on his colleagues and reporters alike. Friends say he talked in 2005 about leaving the Senate when his fourth term came to an end in 2008. Not until 2006 did he firmly declare he would seek a fifth term...