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On his wedding day three months ago, Michael Forbes made a special announcement to his guests: He and his new wife would be moving into a beautiful home in Merrick.
"Everyone thought it was nice, was happy for him," his uncle, Cecil Dudley, said Thursday.
No one realized how horribly wrong things on Frankel Boulevard would turn.
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CMS wins AAU state
The Cleveland Middle wrestling team recently won the AAU state championship. TuesS3 In a field of the top eight teams in the state, Cleveland came out on top with wins over Knoxville Karns (70-16), Kingsport (65-22), McCallie (64-17) and avenging an earlier loss by defeating the Sharpshooters of Nashville, 48-32. Lake Forest also participated in the tournament, finishing sixth.
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Broadband refocus boosts D Telekom
Deutsche Telekom last year gained almost as many new customers for high-speed internet lines in Germany as it lost clients abandoning old-style phone contracts, a sign the restructuring of its domestic operations is bearing fruit. At the same time, Europe's largest telecoms group said cost cuts would have to continue to help it recover from a crisis in Germany that is expected to see 2007 profits, due at the end of next month, sag below those seen the year before. It also said that it had made “major progress" in its search for a partner for the computer-systems integration unit of T-Systems, the corporate services division, a step that is meant to focus Telekom's portfolio more sharply. The Bonn-based group said that new pricing and improved service had seen it gain 1.9m new customers for so-called broadband lines, giving it a 44 per cent share of new clients in its home market.
500 foreclosed Atlanta homes to be auctioned
Hudson & Marshall said it will auction more than 500 homes in Atlanta and nearly 100 homes elsewhere in Georgia. The homes are valued from $30,000 to nearly $700,000, according to the company, which says it is America's largest auction firm of bank-owned real estate The company said it will auction over 500 Atlanta homes Jan. 16 and 17 at the Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center and Jan. 19 and 20 at the Hilton Atlanta. Other homes will be auctioned in cities throughout Georgia on the following days: Jan. 15 in Athens; Jan. 16 in Macon; Jan. 17 in Ellijay; and Jan. 18 in McDonough. All the homes have been repossessed by banks. .
How green is your city?
Nadine Bopp led a walking tour through the West Rogers Park neighborhood on a recent January afternoon, but the group trudging along the slushy sidewalks behind her was not sightseeing.
The 15 students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago met their instructor at the busy corner of Western and Devon Avenues, the heart of the city's Little India enclave, with a different mission. Bopp, an adjunct professor at the SAIC, and her class were working on the Green Map Project, part of a liberal arts course on urban issues, sustainability and mapmaking.
In the course of a week, the students would break into smaller groups to canvass the neighborhood, documenting schools, mosques, dry cleaners and community centers, with particular attention to those with sustainable design or features.
McCain's Cheap Dates?
OK, let's concede there are some unpleasant, unskilled jobs that need doing. How to get them done? 1) One solution is to raise the pay until enough Americans--including teens and college-age kids--and legal immigrants are willing to take the jobs. If the wage gets so high that machines can do the job more efficiently, then unskilled workers will gradually be replaced by robots. (Maybe Rove could tolerate having his son run a computerized robotic tomato picker.) 2) We could in effect draft Americans to do these lousy jobs. It would be a duty of citizenship, like serving on juries. I have a vague memory of Michael Walzer suggesting something along these lines in Spheres of Justice; 3) A third solution would be to import foreigners to work the lousy jobs, but offer them a deal in which, if they work for x number of years, they could gain equal citizenship.
July 31st -- THAYER'S PRACTICE BALL
I know he's a newcomer, but after watching the tempo that he's willing to practice at and then you see what that does to the offensive lineman. They have to improve their practice game in order to compete at his level. Then he came out in full pads and kept up that tempo not only in the one-on-one drills, but in the team drills already running some with the first team in the nickel rush." .
Vacation home market attracting developers, second-home buyers
In West Virginia's Canaan Valley, the highest plateau east of the Rockies, Joe Beam is building vacation homes for fellow pilots, with a lighted 3,000-foot runway just outside the front door. Atop the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, at least three developers are targeting home buyers who enjoy rock climbing, rafting and hiking. And on 7,000 acres surrounding the legendary Greenbrier resort, builders have erected multimillion-dollar mansions for the wealthiest 1 percent of buyers. When it comes to variety, value and unique attractions, developers say West Virginia has a lot to offer second-home buyers, so they're targeting a segment of the real estate market that is still doing well. Their projects are often near tourism destinations including ski resorts and federally protected park lands.
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