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...others who work at Canary Wharf, the docklands development where Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and many others have their offices. Greenwich is just a short hop from the wharf, thanks to the Docklands Light Railway. Liam Bailey, head of residential research at the real estate firm Knight Frank, says the gentrification started a decade or so ago and has accelerated in the past five years. Knight Frank is currently offering one-bedroom apartments with river views there starting at about $500,000 apiece...
DIED The inspiration for Robert De Niro's character in Martin Scorsese's Casino, Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal ran four Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and was labeled "the greatest living expert on sports gambling" by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Head of the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina casinos, he was famous for his alleged ties to the Mob. After surviving an attempt on his life, Rosenthal left the city and ended his gambling career. He never admitted any wrongdoing, once invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 35 times in a 1961 Senate hearing on gambling and organized crime...
...inevitable voyeurs, exhibitionists and fabricators drawn to the sites, online confessions have a fundamental appeal because they assure people that they are not alone in their misery or quirkiness, and for the confessor, the anonymous unburdening can be a first step toward facing up to a painful event. Frank Warren started the original online confessional, the distinctly secular PostSecret.com--which draws 5 million viewers a month--as an art installation in Washington. He handed out self-addressed postcards to strangers and asked them to write and decorate a secret that a) was true and b) had not yet been told...
...case is currently being investigated by Cambridge Police,” said the CPD spokesperson Frank T. Pasquarello...
...make it to my test by seven-past, I couldn’t help but overhear admissions tour guide Erica V. Eastspring ’11 explaining to a crowd of feisty, prep-school seniors why she love, loves Harvard so, so much. “To be quite frank,” she shouted, striking up an inappropriately academic tone for the setting at hand, “I absolutely adore Harvard’s quaint, collegiate, neo-Georgian architecture and its professorial staff. But an institution is built from its student body and it is the stellar intellectual...