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...Knowing that doesn't get you off the hook for the debt, of course. But I suppose it has at least one advantage: You can tell the debt collector to back off or you'll sue. And unlike him, you don't even have to mean...
...could not ask for a kinder, more considerate contract killer than John Keller. Animal lover, stamp collector, consummate pro, he dispatches his victims--an overpaid baseball player, a nosy therapist, a troublesome housewife--with a cool efficiency they would appreciate if they weren't already dead. Block has more than 50 books under his belt, but none are more endearing--or subversive--than his Keller novels. In a world gone mad, the hit man with a heart of gold may be the only one who still knows right from wrong. You find yourself thinking, "So he kills people. Is that...
...undeveloped land could accommodate a luxury cabin, according to a Sheldon Good and Co. press release. The estate was originally commissioned by railway magnate George Dunton Widener, who drowned aboard the Titanic in April 1912 alongside his 27-year-old son Harry Elkins, the Harvard graduate and book collector whose private collection helped found the library named in his memory. George’s wife Eleanor Elkins Widener—who survived the Titanic disaster—apportioned $1.5 million to completing Miramar between 1914-1915 in addition to financing the library that bears her son’s name...
Trash is indeed cash for an increasing number of firms--from 1-800-GOT-JUNK, the garbage collector that's grown more than 400% in five years, to municipal recycling depots nationwide. It's hard to measure the scope of the waste-recovery industry--as Szaky says, garbage is only called garbage until enough people want it. But demand for trash is evident in growing markets and rising prices for by-products that used to be dirt cheap, free or off-loaded with a cash kicker--such things as tire chips and crumb rubber, organic waste, even restaurant grease. "Resource...
...history programs and only a single Picasso in all of Australia. So after faking it for a while he lit out for Europe, wandering from church to museum. That experience, he writes, gave him a first-rate education but forever ruined him for "the company of some oafish collector who just bought a Jeff Koons but thinks Parmigianino was a kind of cheese." Hughes began freelancing art pieces for newspapers and magazines in London. There he met a lively Australian named Danne Emerson, got her pregnant and married her in 1967. But she preferred hard drugs and serial sex, giving...