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Suddenly in Kabul, DJs are in demand. Ball gowns are being brushed off and red, white and blue outfits picked out. American expatriates are debating the relative merits of competing inaugural balls, one hosted by Democrats Abroad, another by the U.S. embassy. Tickets for both are sold out, and for those who are neither Democrats nor American, viewing parties have been planned across the capital. Afghans with access to satellite television are charging car batteries to ensure that not one minute of the inaugural festivities will be lost to the city's chronic power outages. Not even Saturday's suicide...
...turned out, was not actually a collector but a publisher of newsletters. ("Swine Flu Litigation Reporter" was one of them.) He was also a greeting-card manufacturer who had secured all reproduction rights to the Helga pictures. After the publicity storm had been whipped to a peak, he sold the whole bunch to a Japanese buyer for a reported $45 million. At that point, Wyeth found it prudent to come forward to say there had never been a sexual relationship between him and his model, and his wife announced that actually she had seen some of the pictures before, though...
...Though he earns $700,000 a year, he's been a beneficiary of a hefty amount of stock: he's sold more than $100 million worth since joining Apple. Despite his wealth, he rents a house in Palo Alto...
...rehabilitation and restructuring of Citigroup (C) was supposed to take months, or maybe a year. The big bank got a cash infusion when it sold a part of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley. The plan for the creation of a new Citi was based on its ability to limit its losses so that it could buy time to unload other parts of its family of financial companies...
...point comes when consumers believe that assets are so inexpensive that they will not be this low again for decades. A house which was once worth $500,000 is on the market for $125,000. A new appliance which would have sold for $600 a year ago can by bought for $200. Consumers, who have panicked over their debt and lost jobs, have finally saved enough money and paid enough debt so that unspeakably low prices bring them back into the market...