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...comes before the wife, kids and golden retriever. "On my own, I might have been able to buy a one-bedroom condo, but that would have been pushing it," says Kovack. Instead, he and Katz live in a 2,300-sq.-ft. (about 215 sq m) three-bedroom row house with stainless-steel appliances and a deck out back. They split the mortgage, the tax break, the cost of upkeep--and the pride of being homeowners a few years out of college...
Families, though, are built for mingled finances. Friendships, we're told, are not. "My parents were very nervous," says Tanja Gabrovsek, 35, a nurse who bought a three-bedroom row house in San Francisco with her friend and colleague Simin Marefat, 34. Signing a mortgage means you're on the hook financially; the bank doesn't care if you're not the one whose check is late. So what happens if someone loses a job? Or wants to move...
...wooed at the state caucuses. "I enjoyed it, but not to the extent Bill Clinton does," says Franken. And he's a little worn down from all the fund-raising. "I don't mind calling people for money. I mind asking people for money for five hours in a row. It drives me crazy." His footing has been good, despite the fact that his campaign says opponents have several people videotaping him at most public events. One hung around so much that Team Franken adopted him and fed him the kind of chocolate it discovered he liked best...
...Olympics in Hong Kong have not gone off without incident. At the inaugural event on Aug. 9, Christina Chan, a young woman sitting in the front row of the stadium, was smothered by security staff after trying to unveil a banned Tibetan flag she and a friend had snuck past the guards. They hauled her out of the arena as some members of the crowd jeered and chanted for her to leave - her dissident act cut short before it even started. Another man wearing an anti-Olympics t-shirt was barred from even entering the venue, while a human rights...
...group's Aug. 13 protest, five activists dressed in "Free Tibet" T shirts locked a row of bicycles to the entrance of the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park in the north of Beijing, which they used to keep police from dragging them away. Security guards grabbed their Tibetan flags but allowed them to remain on the spot for about 10 minutes as they chanted slogans and conducted interviews with foreign journalists. "The Chinese people are great, but shame on the Chinese government because they are lying to the people of China," said Pema Yoko, 25, a Tibetan-Japanese woman from...