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...glittering, easily identifiable ice would be difficult, the insurance company that had covered the jewels offered a $300,000 no-questions-asked reward for their return. For eight months nobody responded to the notices in Le Figaro. Then French police were told that an intermediary was trying to make contact with the insurance firm...
...does not swim. He is a passionate tennis player, yet the house has no tennis court. "First you wind up providing the balls, then the Cokes?there's no end to it," Simon explains. "I decided to join a tennis club instead, which was, at one point, my only contact with mankind." While the house is decorated to resemble a country retreat in, say, Connecticut, Simon's seven-room Manhattan duplex is just the opposite: sleekly art deco, almost Californian, with a sun-flooded atrium at penthouse level, offering sweeping views in three directions of Park Avenue and the city...
...league has more than 85), 28 more than last season in four fewer games. “One of the biggest goals [coming into this season] was to get to the line a lot more, basically by being more aggressive, attacking the rim stronger, and not avoiding the contact like I would do in the past,” Cusworth said. “Out of the statistics, that’s probably the one that I’m the most proud of, is the fact that I’ve been getting to the line, and really going...
...1970s, rural poverty and incessant cross-border hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militants operating from south Lebanon spurred tens of thousands of Shi'ites to migrate to the slums of southern Beirut, dubbed the "belt of misery," bringing them into contact with the city-dwelling Sunnis...
...Stepped-up diplomatic contact between Iran and the Saudis has also fueled considerable speculation that a face-saving compromise may be in the works end the political crisis in Lebanon. But as Thursday's unscripted surge of sectarian violence demonstrated, a political deal may come too late to cool the seething passions on the streets of Beirut...