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...supporting Big Brown makes the horse's rise more Guys and Dolls than Kentucky blue blood. They're fast-talking New Yorkers. Besides Dutrow, an ex-addict who was once so down and out that he lived in a racetrack barn, take Michael Iavarone, 37, Big Brown's majority owner. An ex--Wall Street banker and Long Island native who left the rat race for horse-racing, Iavarone and his partners arranged to buy control of Big Brown for $2.5 million in September, after watching him race once--once--on TV. "We put our balls on the line," he says...
...newly elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher granted public-housing tenants the right to buy those homes for knock-down prices. The measure was cheered by one Thatcher minister as "one of the most important social revolutions of this century." By 2005, 70% of U.K. homes were owner-occupied, less than in Spain or Italy, but above the E.U. average and well beyond the levels reached in France or Germany...
...neglected homes in the outskirts or banlieues of Paris into the heart of the city, all to a grueling, nightmarish electro beat. Followed by a camera crew from their housing project to Sacre Coeur to Charles de Gaulle airport, they harass women, break a bottle over a café owner's head, fight with the police and commit a carjacking. The video ends with the car set aflame and the cameraman apparently beaten unconscious. The screen goes black, and a final, garbled voice screams in French, "Does filming this get you off, you S.O.B?" The video has been viewed more...
...cream store owner criticized Harvard’s real estate practices for giving the Square newcomer an unfair advantage with discounted rent...
Further, what does a pet owner call the clone of their original pet? At the very least, one hopes that owners will not make the same mistake twice and call their poor cloned dog Booger, after the original. Emily C. Ingram ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot house...