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...suffered? The heady growth of recent years is clearly over, and prices may soften over the next few years--both good reasons to take something off the table. But it's a good bet that the rate of household formation (growing) and supply of desirable building lots (shrinking) will underpin the market for years. So if you're not planning to move soon, the home equity you've built should be put to better...
Gomez’s set drew substantially on their most recent album and despite the complex layers of loops and samples that underpin many of their songs, their performance was seamless. “We used to be a lot more messy,” Gray claimed. “The show has gotten much tighter since our early days.” Both Gray and Ball disavow any knowledge of the mess of buttons and samplers that sit behind drummer Olly Peacock onstage, from whence come the skittish beat of “Detroit Swing 66?...
...American success and energy and civilization. It was a crime--the filling of the air of a great and free city with the irradiated dust of innocent human lives. It was a statement--that radical Islam intends to attack and destroy the very principles of the Enlightenment that underpin the American experiment--freedom of religion, of conscience, toleration and secularism. The appropriate response to this attack is therefore not grief or remembrance or sadness or reflection, although each of these has its place. The appropriate response is rage...
...strong and plaintive, if somewhat unremarkable voice. The lyrics are mostly indistinct—which is not a huge loss to humanity—and wander mostly over onto the wrong side of the personal self-revelatory/Dadaist random incoherency divide. Nothing resembles a narrative, and characters underpin most of the songs. A fairly random sampling, from “Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday” yields: “Out of the darkness / Sings a signal to our sleep / APB for every dream / Dead within the week / Hooray.” It is about as obscure (and profound...
...With today's easy home-equity lines, investment gains in a house are as liquid as those from a stock or bond. Don't look for home prices to crack in a big way--just enough so that long rates finally ease and trigger another refinancing wave that should underpin the economy. If, that is, bond traders finally...