Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Paul Wolfowitz has been elected unanimously:
As expected, the 24 executive directors of the World Bank unanimously voted Thursday to elect Paul Wolfowitz president.
This follows a week of intensive personal diplomacy, including encouraging statements such as these:
“I understand that I am, to put it mildly, a controversial figure,” he said. “But I hope that, as [...]
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— Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill, who knew a thing or two
What makes a city work? How much tax will the market bear?
In a spectacularly delicious irony of juxtaposition, the Boston Globe recently ran, on the same day, two stories of state-capital cities going in opposite [...]
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In the < ?xml:namespace prefix ="" st1 />US, rental subsidies fund rental housing, and homeownership subsidies fund homeownership, and never the tenure twain shall meet. Is this wisdom, habit, or mere [...]
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– Kurt Vonnegut, introduction to Mother Night (1961)
Paul Wolfowitz will make a great World Bank president.
“Who, me?”
Not bad. Not good. Great. When he steps down in 2010 (or so), he will be so [...]
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More to the point, should it?
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