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...property, Hertie assigned its rights to the government for just j700,000, a fraction of the estimated €20 million that the government would have had to pay at market prices. "Governments the world over give sweetheart deals," says Gary Osen, a U.S. lawyer whose suit in a New Jersey court on behalf of the Wertheim family helped to unearth some of these details. "What you don't see a lot of - and what makes this alarming - is that the government is writing checks." If the government isn't talking, Osen and his client Barbara Principe...
From an early age, Lenny Litzky, 74, loved baseball, playing American Legion ball in the Bronx during high school and later coaching and managing Little League, Mickey Mantle and Connie Mack teams in New Jersey while his son was young. As a teenager, Litzky sold peanuts and scorecards at New York Giants and Yankees games...
...Died. Celia Cruz, 78, flamboyant singer known as the "Queen of Salsa," who recorded more than 70 albums; in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Cruz fled her native Cuba after the 1959 revolution and became a star in a traditionally male genre with her operatic voice, sequined costumes, outrageous wigs and trademark shout of "Azúcar!" (Spanish for sugar.) She won three Latin Grammys and two Grammys, including best salsa album this year for La Negra Tiene Tumbao...
...days after Compay Segundo's death, two separate boat hijackings left 3 dead and a 10-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head. On Wednesday, Celia Cruz, the Cuban-born "Queen of Salsa" whom Castro barred from ever returning to Cuba, died in exile in New Jersey at the age of 78.
...Those events suggested that Tien hadn't merely glimpsed some wider goalposts but had ripped off his jersey, with Beijing's encouragement no less. But last week, Tien told a slightly different story. He says he went to Beijing to warn of a "big crisis" if the Article 23 bill was pushed through: in other words, another huge public protest. Tien says Liao reminded him that the Article 23 legislation was required of Hong Kong but that the details were up to Legco?that was the whole point of the "one country, two systems" philosophy. On timing, according to Tien...