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Like a lot of people, William Hill and Dick Wollack got caught up in the real estate frenzy. But you won't find them anywhere near a Las Vegas condo. Instead, their company, Premier Pacific Vineyards, has been snapping up land in prime wine-growing areas of California, Oregon and Washington since 2002. Hill and Wollack are developing vineyards that produce high-end grapes used in premium wines. The play? Bundle their vineyards into a real estate investment trust (REIT), and take it public...
...they gave out Pulitzers for book titles, Ferriss would win easily. His promise of lucrative slackerdom has kept this nonsense near the top of the best-seller lists since May, thanks in part to an eager community of online fans. They apparently have too much time on their hands. The author cites his own improbable résumé--Guinness world-record holder in tango, actor on hit TV series in China and Hong Kong, glycemic-index researcher and shark diver, among other things--to convince readers that luxury and excitement are within anyone's reach. The upshot of his advice? Outsource...
Some Republican conservatives have been threatening to back a third-party candidate for President next year if Rudy Giuliani wins the GOP nomination. Yet the sometimes-liberal former New York City mayor continues to run at or near the top of polls of Republican voters. When do parties reach outside the box for candidates? Do they define the people they nominate--or can a candidate change his party...
...want him to give an address detailing his strategy for measurably reducing black-on-black crime,†Lockridge-Steckel said. The event came in response to two high-profile violent crimes. Last Saturday, Myron Stovell, a Pop Warner football coach, was shot in the leg near the basketball court that students visited in Roxbury. A 15-year-old Roxbury boy was arrested and charged with the shooting, according to the Boston Globe. On Oct. 4, Steven P. Odom, 13, was shot outside his home on his way back from basketball, according to the Globe and the Boston Herald...
...cluster of Cambridge houses near the Harvard Divinity School, originally built as living quarters for Harvard junior faculty, is at the center of a heated clash over tempering development in the city...