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...reportedly invested about $220 million in, appears to have run out of steam. A wide avenue is lined with half-finished copies of Amsterdam canal houses, hollow shells already showing signs of wear. A few workers trundle down the street pulling wheelbarrows, but otherwise the place is deserted. Red-brick housing blocks hold 1,400 apartments?all vacant. Liu Ping of the Netherlands Business Support Office in Shenyang says: "A lot of people wonder whether (Yang) will be able to pay off his loans...
...were shocked and appalled to find out that he has started spending Wednesday afternoons tutoring at-risk youths at a local junior high school. According to blockmates and police, Mackey’s only previously expressed public-service goal was “throwing a goddamn flaming brick through the window of the Fly?...
...busting their butts," says Jim (Penn) Sherlock, 50. Penn is Mikey Boy's brother (the Travelers go by nicknames, like One-Eyed Pete and Curly Joe, since they share the same dozen surnames). Penn began his childhood in a tent but graduated to a mobile home and then a brick house--a common pattern among the more successful Travelers. In Murphy Village, the rows of trailer homes are suddenly interrupted by ornate pink and white mansions...
...prime piece of downtown Taipei real estate, the $144 million, 12-story edifice glistens with floors and walls tiled in marble imported from Spain and India. In one of the most cramped and densely populated cities in Asia, the headquarters presides over a wide, leafy boulevard, overshadowing the brick Taiwan presidential offices situated across the street?a building that was once virtually an annex of the party anyway, since a Kuomintang chairman occupied the presidency continuously between 1949 and 2000. The KMT building "is the spiritual pillar of the party," says Chang Che-shen, director-general of the party...
...dozen homes, starting just before dawn. Among four people held for questioning was Denis Donaldson, the Sinn Fein official who runs the office at Stormont. The searches were prompted by a theft that occured just a few hundred meters from Sinn Fein's Stormont office, in a dull brick building that houses the last remaining outpost of the British central government in Northern Ireland, which still presides over the Ulster's policing and justice system. In September 2001, a messenger working there was caught photocopying files. He was fired, but police began a year-long investigation that...