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...reserve for lunch or risk going hungry. Everyone I've sent to the enoteca (wine bar) lunch spot Bleve (Via Santa Maria del Pianto) or the more elaborate Costanza (Piazza del Paradiso) has been forever grateful. On a grander scale, for dinner, there is the multistarred La Pergola (Cavalieri Hilton, Via Cadlolo 101), where Heinz Beck provides a gastronomic feast while diners overlook the city in all its splendor...
...amateurs. Called PodFinder, it's the world's first audio directory to help listeners browse, search, discover and subscribe to podcasts. PodShow claims that 4 million listeners access its content--about half the estimated podcasting audience. The company produces some of today's hottest content, including podcasts for Paris Hilton, Spike Lee and The Dawn and Drew Show! (raw talk from two married ex-punks living in a Wisconsin farmhouse) and shows for media companies like Sirius Satellite Radio. It plans to promote independent artists and royalty-free music podcasts...
...PARIS HILTON plays a South Beach University sorority president in National Lampoon's Pledge This! (out Nov. 4). A word to the thousands of frat boys out there hoping to transfer: South Beach U. is fictional...
...will be a primary or secondary residence or merely an investment). Others, like Robins, limit the number of units a person can purchase in any one development; and some, like StarPointe Properties of Arizona, are requiring investors to close on (and take title to) the property they're buying. Hilton and Meritage, as well as a host of other large developers like Pulte Homes, are playing even harder ball: they now demand that a homebuyer forfeit the profit if selling a home before the minimum period of one year (except for hardship reasons). Hilton says Meritage already has several cases...
...Investors counter that the flip-busting measures are a violation of free-market practices and a worrisome, if not illegal, form of real estate discrimination. The enforceability of anti-investor clauses is still in question, but Hilton says Meritage's attorneys have assured him that his company's pending cases against investors "will stand up," and no investor has yet filed a suit against the anti-investor measures. In the meantime, it appears the investors may have trouble erasing an image, fair or not, as the bad guys of this housing boom...