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...British media are speculating that Jackson, who has been staying at the $11,000-a-night Royal Suite at the Lanesborough Hotel, is staging this comeback - for which tickets go on sale on March 13 - to help pay off the debts he has incurred since a court cleared him of sexual-abuse charges in June 2005. (He hasn't performed a full concert since then.) In November 2008 the singer reached an undisclosed settlement with Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the prince of Bahrain, who was suing Jackson for $7 million over claims he reneged on a contract...
...course, there have been some embarrassing moments that infamously earned him the nickname Wacko Jacko. Stories of personal, health and financial problems have constantly cropped up, and he's currently trying to stop an auction of thousands of his personal possessions. (See pictures of the auction items for sale...
...optimistic stick figures since the store opened in August of 2006, “It’s not all doom and gloom,” he said. While Tompkins noted a contingent of “die-harders” in Cambridge, a lack of sales and high rent overcame what he described as a “little piece of optimism” from economic reality. “I actually found the other employees to be really negative, and it seemed to me like the management was in a bit of turmoil,” said...
...talks too quickly, and he swallows the ends of his sentences, and he gives the impression of a grad student taking an oral exam, not someone leading the country out of perdition. But he'll be the hero of the Western world if his plan to subsidize the sale of toxic assets leads banks back from the brink...
...into its worst recession in generations, but China is on a wild shopping spree. Sitting some $2 trillion of cash reserves, Beijing is taking advantage of the woes of others to cement its grip on new sources of commodities ranging from olive oil to crude oil -often at fire-sale prices...