It’s hard to feel sorry for a guy who walks away from a job with a check for €50 million .
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The Beautiful Side of New Jersey Corruption
Every year about this time, bluefish school off the New Jersey shore. For fishermen in the right spot, it’s often a stunning abundance of fortune.
Mob Allegations Turn Rome’s ‘Sweet Life’ Sour
“In all Europe there is no street quite so lively, quite so cosmopolitan or quite so zany as Rome’s Via Venetos” So began a 1959 TIME story trumpeting Café de Paris as the new must-see-and-be-seen spot on the then already famous leafy boulevard. Fifty years later, the sidewalk locale is as luxurious as ever , attracting both well-heeled Italians and tourists looking for a hint of the breezy, post-War sweet life celebrated in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, in which the café was a key location. On Wednesday, Café de Paris was back in the spotlight for different reasons: Even as sharply dressed customers and summer travelers in shorts sipped cappuccino, police seized the premises on suspicion that it had fallen into the hands of the increasingly powerful Calabrian mob
Box Office Wizardry: Harry Potter’s Wand-erful Week
The wise old men and their young colleagues gave the world all the entertainment it needed this weekend. While 59-year-old, self-proclaimed “geezer” golfer Tom Watson mounted a heroic effort to win the British Open, only to fall short in a four-hole playoff against a much younger rival, that great gray sorcerer Albus Dumbledore led Harry Potter to the biggest opening for any film in the series.
Israeli Settlers Versus the Palestinians
In a hilltop suburb South of Jerusalem called Efrat, Sharon Katz serves a neat plate of sliced cake inside her five-bedroom house, surrounded by pomegranate, olive and citrus trees that she planted herself. She glances out the window at the hills where, she believes, David and Abraham once walked. “We are living in the biblical heartland,” she sighs.
Man must choose between selling kidney or child
Mohammed Iqbal said he has been told by his landlord to pay up on debts and is left with a choice facing others in this impoverished corner of Pakistan: Sell your children or a kidney. For the 50-year-old Iqbal, there is only one option. Despite a law passed in late 2007 banning transplants for money, he has decided to sell his kidney and has already been for pre-operation tests
Swim club in racial flap says it can’t afford lawsuit
A suburban Pennsylvania swim club accused of racism says it cannot afford to fight a lawsuit that may come from the club kicking out a largely minority daycare.
Can the U.S. afford health care reform?
Doctor James Braude leads a group medical practice in an elegant Atlanta, Georgia, office decorated with designer furnishings. It doesn’t look like a charity asking for handouts
Obama’s Economic-Stimulus Plan: Failing by Its Own Measure
The $787 billion stimulus plan is turning out to be far less stimulating than its architects expected.
Jackson fans to stage impromptu London tribute
There is no concert and the only music heard will be the tinny sound of portable speakers blaring Michael Jackson’s greatest hits. But event organizers expect thousands of the singer’s fans to converge on the O2 Arena in London Monday to mark what would have been the opening night of the singer’s long-awaited comeback, the first in a grueling 50-date “This Is It” concert tour. They will be bringing candles, flowers and photos for an impromptu memorial service organized over social networking sites including Facebook