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...movies, Michael Mann has made interesting music choices - when to use it, and at what volume. Your worked together on Heat, which often buried the music in the background. What was it like working with him on this period piece...
...attorney who has handled several high-profile cases, including the second autopsy of Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel, says that in the case of a potential drug overdose, the body of the deceased would not be needed for examination once fluid or tissue samples were obtained. Often, the coroner will keep the brain to conduct neuropathology tests, which can't happen until about two weeks after death, when the brain hardens, says Wecht. It's also likely that the coroner is conducting further tests on the superstar's heart, he adds. (See TIME's top 10 Michael Jackson moments...
...write a piece on short sales - that is, selling your house for less than what you owe on your mortgage. "What might have been selling at $2 million two years ago could be selling for $1.2 million today," says Henderson. Compounding the problem: people who buy expensive homes often want them as second homes. Those folks are most certainly gone from the market, which means an even smaller pool of buyers...
Then there is the financing issue. The federal government has done a lot to try to keep interest rates low - like buying up mortgaged-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - but loans over a certain size are often exempt. The rates on "jumbo" loans (generally those that run about $417,000) have historically been about .25 percentage points higher than on regular mortgages. That spread jumped all the way up to 180 basis points last fall, according to data-tracker HSH Associates - but has since settled down to about 100. Still, that's a big added expense. Plus...
...Haas added that he is not sure if this was a major factor in this year’s flare-up of violence, and also pointed out that maintaining enough prisons, which are often already overcrowded, can be expensive and impractical...