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Prosperity has its favorite hobbies, its gold-trimmed roadsters and superyachts and the million-dollar platinum fishing lure studded with 100 carats of diamonds. But in an age of austerity, when we seek satisfaction on the cheap, some pursuits are all about value, but not necessarily about money. This is the beauty of the collector's world. When you don't like the look of the economy, you get to make your...
California's fight over the initiative to ban gay marriage (popularly called Prop. 8) has attracted its share of million-dollar donors. The big contributors in the fight to approve Prop. 8 include the Knights of Columbus ($1 million); the National Organization for Marriage ($500,000); Dr. John Templeton, the son of the philanthropist Sir John Templeton ($450,000); and Focus on the Family ($500,000). Fighting against approval of Prop. 8 are celebrities like Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw ($50,000 each), as well as former GOP U.S. Senate candidate Michael Huffington ($100,000); Robert Haas, chairman...
...involved in logistics and strategy with the al-Qaeda go-between Hambali. The four men's faces have appeared on widely distributed wanted posters and on the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice website; $10 million is offered for Dulmatin and $1 million for Patek. But for nearly six years the fugitives have defied high-tech surveillance wizardry, million-dollar rewards and a manhunt by thousands of soldiers, spies and police across three countries in Southeast Asia...
...community hasn't done its part by enforcing the ordinance," says David Schein, FEMA's senior flood-plain-management specialist. That essentially means the only assistance the Federal Government is likely to provide is temporary shelter and food. "That's really humanitarian," snaps Ellett. "We don't have million-dollar homes here. We have $30,000 and $20,000 homes. And we're hurting...
...eventual removal of Craigie Arms from the rent control roster did not have the feared negative impact on affordable housing in Cambridge, since the University invested much of the profit from the sale of the apartments in 1985 to the Harvard Emergency Loan Program (HELP) fund, a half million-dollar program designed to rehabilitate deteriorated low-income housing...