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...feng shui "master" Tony Chan Chun-chuen - who also claimed to be her lover - and stipulated that everything was to be left to him. It emerged in court that Chan had told Wang to bury large amounts of cash and precious stones at up to 80 secret sites around Hong Kong, in supposedly propitious feng shui rituals, and that Wang had paid him at least $250 million for this and similar pieces of advice. Not content with such a spectacular windfall, the caddish Chan - the kind of parvenu, incidentally, who names his eldest son Wealthee - considers himself entitled the rest...
...force (employed plus unemployed), and there's your rate. Measured that way, unemployment still isn't as bad as it was at the lowest point of the 1981-82 recession, when it hit 10.8%. And it's nowhere near what it was in 1933, when the rate peaked somewhere around...
...hard-pressed to understand why al-Qaeda, a slaughtering group of extremists, and that brazenly ruthless movement called the Taliban would stick around for the next 18 months, making themselves a vastly outnumbered, living sacrifice to U.S. and allied forces, when all they seemingly have to do is hide out until we're supposed to leave?" --12/5/09...
...choking him during an argument at a family barbecue. His mother raised him in a mobile home dragged into the woods on the island's South End, which, as local writer and stained-glass artist Jack Archibald says, has "basically one main road, a two-lane blacktop that loops around like a belt on a skinny fella...
...holiday sales the worst fourth quarter in decades - and it was the flashy, buzzy gizmos that fell fastest, while the classics held their own. Kids like the dough more than the cookies, the box just as much as what's inside. This is a rare case when the straps around your wallet serve the interests of your children, who might amaze you with what they can produce with a pile of construction paper, a box of crayons, some glue and a quiet afternoon in which to use them...