By STEVEN KURUTZ : GERRY GRUNSFELD, a genial 32-year-old lawyer who grew up in England and now lives in a narrow two-story house in Midwood, Brooklyn, has the kind of backyard you’re not sure whether to envy or pity.
True, it’s green space, a rare and precious commodity for a city dweller. But it’s not much […]
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By DAVID STREITFELD : CHICAGO — Just in time for a recession, the debt collection industry is working to shed its reputation for remorselessly hounding people.
Oh, the collectors still want the money. But now they would like to be seen as helpful and sympathetic, even a force for good.
They have started calling the indebted “our […]
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By VIKAS BAJAJ : Almost everything seems to be going wrong for the American economy at once. People are buying less, but most things are costing more. Mortgage rates are rising, the dollar is falling and prices of key commodities like oil are leaping from one record high to the next.
On Thursday, the dollar plumbed […]
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By KEITH BRADSHER : HONG KONG — The Hong Kong government on Thursday closed all elementary schools and preschools in the territory a week early for Easter holidays after three children died amid an influenza outbreak, but insisted there was no sign that SARS or bird flu were involved.
The abrupt closing of the schools, announced […]
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