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...reasonable to suppose that Heather Mills isn't the world's greatest Beatles fan, but today she might well believe in yesterday. Less than 24 hours after she emerged from London's Royal Courts of Justice to pronounce herself "very, very happy" with her 24.3 million pound ($49 million) divorce settlement from Paul McCartney, she failed in a bid to stop the judge who decided the award from publishing his reasons for doing so. She said she was appealing against publication to protect the privacy of her four-year-old daughter Beatrice, apparently the only positive issue of the less...
...then dishonesty sometimes pays. Mills, a former lingerie model who lost part of her leg in a 1993 road accident, will receive a lump sum of 16.5 million pounds plus properties worth a further 7.8 million. Since McCartney first filed for divorce from Mills in July 2006, the world's media has done its best to cover the case, even though the proceedings were held in private. Despite her protestations of contentment at the outcome, Mills can't have enjoyed listening to the judgment. True, she emerged with a greater slice of his 400 million pound assets than the musician...
Indeed, the judge's characterization of Mills is, while politely couched, not flattering. To her argument that she brought substantial wealth into the marriage, Bennett points out that she inflated the value of her property (a 500,000 pound apartment, for example, really costing only 385,000 pounds - and that in the middle of a real estate boom). Nor do the facts, as Bennett sees them, support Mills' version of the romance, in which she says she helped rehabilitate a broken and importunate McCartney, mourning his late wife Linda. (For example, the formality with which the ex-Beatle loaned Mills...
...keep Harvard in the game and cement himself as the front-runner to take the Crimson’s fourth rotation spot once the Ivy League season starts.“We’ve been having a tough time finding people that can go out there and pound the zone and he was great,” Stack-Babich said. “He wasn’t afraid to fail and he didn’t.”But Sestanovich’s gritty performance was wasted by a dormant showing from the Harvard offense, which?...
Unconfirmed reports by several internet sports blogs are suggesting that 6’10, 230 pound center Frank Ben-Eze has rescinded his commitment to join the Harvard men’s basketball team in the fall...