As layoffs bite Wall St, New York real estate hit

NEW YORK (Reuters) - While most of the United States has suffered a housing slump over the past two years, home prices in New York's Manhattan have been largely unscathed, propped up by demand from Wall Street bankers and the island's limited housing supply.

McCain blasts Obama, breaks with Bush on energy

KENNER, Louisiana (Reuters) - Republican John McCain launched his November election campaign for the White House on Tuesday with a searing attack on Democratic rival Barack Obama and a pledge to break with the energy policies of the Bush administration.

Black Boy (Richard Wright's) Development From Childhood Innocence And Daring Curiosity To Writing

Richard Wright born on a Plantation at Mississippi, the son of Nathaniel Wright, an illiterate sharecropper,who was born shortly before 1880 to Nathaniel Wright, a freed slave who farmed a plot of land given to him at the end of the Civil War and Ella Wilson, a schoolteacher who was born in 1883 and got married to Nathan in 1907 despite her parent's disapproval.Wright's life conformed to the stock pattern of the American success myth which was harsh and filled with hunger and fear. He moved from impoverished and educationally barren early years to legendary achievements as a favored literary touchstone and ancestor figure who gained distinction as an African-American author of powerful, socially-conscious even if sometimes controversial novels, short stories and non-fiction. this article recalls the earliest life of Richard Wright from childhood onto fifth grade or thereabout.