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...dozens more. Penelope has been locked away at home, where her fretting, frittery parents (Catherine O'Hara and Richard T. Grant) parade a retinue of potential husbands, all of whom are nauseated at the sight of her. Finally, in an attempt to define herself as something other than That Rich Little Piggy, she leaves home, and is trailed by a young man (James McAvoy, of Atonement fame) who is being paid to reveal her secret to the tabloids...
...time high of more than $12 per bu. on Feb. 25. The culprit, in part, was the price of crude oil, which has surged back above $100 per bbl. Ironically, high prices for basic foods like potatoes and eggs have also been causing unrest in the oil-rich Middle East...
Henry Wickham wasn't smart, he wasn't rich, and he definitely wasn't lucky. What he was, was determined. In 1866, when he was 20, he sailed for the Amazon in search of exotic feathers for his mother's hat business back in London. That was a failure, like everything else he tried, but he caught the Amazon bug, and 10 years later he pulled off the one spectacular success of his life. In defiance of malaria, anacondas, electric eels, freshwater stingrays, Confederate colonists, customs inspectors and Yanomamo tribesmen, he smuggled 70,000 priceless rubber-tree seeds...
...bonds that form as the three spend time together over the following months and that eventually drive Nathanial insane. When Jamie, a lesbian sculptor and Nathanial’s lover, is raped, Nathanial is convinced that Coolberg is involved. Caught up in the paranoia, Nathanial retreats back to the rich and stable relationships that he has with his loving stepfather and mute sister. Baxter’s characters are obliquely formed through third-party description, and their identities are further confused by paranoid and erratic actions that the reader can’t understand. In “The Soul...
...most of its history, Liechtenstein was far from rich. In 1868, it had to disband its 80-man army to cut costs. "Maybe it was so easy for us to keep our independence because we were so poor that nobody wanted us," says Josef Beck, head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He says prosperity has come to the principality only over the last 20 or 30 years, and it "has a lot to do with the banks...