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Dixon lived with panache, lounging at a posh beach house in Solana Beach, Calif., and entertaining Vernon executives in high style. Trouble was, the money for such perks allegedly came from the thrift's vaults. According to the indictment, the rent on Dixon's beach house was paid by an associate, Jack Atkinson, who had got loans from Vernon. All told, Atkinson paid $577,000 in rent through loans. When Vernon would no longer extend the credit, Dixon allegedly arranged for Atkinson to receive an extra $24,200 as a "consulting" fee, which also went toward the rent...
Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Mass. Aeneas Holdings and Phemus gave the developer a $20 million loan. In exchange, Harvard acquired an interest in the land beneath the posh city landmark...
...with The Draughtsman's Contract and A Zed and Two Noughts revealed his gifts as a creator of murals on the subject of ruthless gamesmanship. His stories are hot, his style cool. His new film is the tale of a vicious crook (Michael Gambon) who dines nightly at a posh restaurant with his gang and his luscious, abused wife (Helen Mirren). Her pleasures are furtive but sweet: between courses she tiptoes out of his sight and has lovely sex with another diner (Alan Howard). When the thief discovers them, there is hell to pay. At the end, she exacts...
Perhaps the Tasty is just a let down after a dinner Kataji describes as "a dining experience," at a posh restaurant on Newbury Street...
...truth. A piece on Harvard's relationship with the city makes a glancing reference to the destruction last December of the Georgian-style Gulf station which used to grace a Mass Ave. lot across the street from the Harvard Union. "In order to clear the way for a posh new hotel, Harvard razed a building it owned just days before it could be declared a historic landmark," write authors Zachary Robinson and Oscar Hernandez. Just about 500 days. The Gulf station would have turned 50 in June of this year--at which point Harvard still could have destroyed it with...