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...Little else about his finances was as clever. Blessed with the regular rewards from the Beatles' music and his own, Jackson started to spend. He paid $17 million in 1988 for the 2,800-acre (roughly 1,000 hectares) ranch in California that would become Neverland. Maintaining the theme park - complete with zoo, movie theater and fairground - swallowed up about $5 million annually. As Jackson gradually retreated from work, the additional millions eaten up by plane charters, antiques, lavish gifts and legal disputes - a child-molestation case in the early 1990s cost Jackson around $20 million to settle - left...
Wilkinson said that the Center would maintain all 20 of its departmental TFs, who are paid to advise their fellow TFs, thereby increasing the impact of the Center's efforts. He also said that the Bok Center may allocate more of its limited resources to enhancing new General Education courses...
...prospect of a hefty ransom. "They won't think too much about what to do with us. That's something we have to accept," says the photographer. (Ransom does not appear to have been a factor in Rohde's case, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. denies that it paid a ransom to effect the release of its reporter Melissa Fung in November 2008.) Watch a video on the challenge for the U.S. military in Afghanistan...
...story. In May 2007, the freelance Afghan journalist and translator was accused of being a spy, abducted and beheaded by the Taliban in southern Helmand province. The Italian correspondent he was working with, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, was later released in exchange for five militants and an undisclosed sum of cash paid by the Italian government. Another Afghan reporter working in Helmand, Abdul Samad Rohani, was killed last June while investigating a story for the British Broadcasting Corp. on illegal poppy cultivation. The Taliban, usually quick to claim credit even in instances where they may not actually be involved, denied any role...
...emerged that one of D'Addario's friends from Bari, Barbara Montereale, was also paid to be at the Nov. 4 party. Montereale told Rome daily La Repubblica that she left after dinner and described D'Addario as a professional escort. Montereale says D'Addario told her that she'd had sex with the Prime Minister on Nov. 4. In subsequent interviews, D'Addario has neither confirmed nor denied Montereale's account...