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...Highlight Reel: 1. Hefner was reared in an Illinois household that avoided displays of affection, and he's often traced his turbo-charged sexuality to this repressive upbringing. As a child he was a loner, refusing to answer the telephone or make short trips by himself. Though an indifferent student, he flashed a glimpse of his entrepreneurial spirit early on by writing, illustrating and selling mini-newspapers and magazines at school and in his neighborhood...
...Fulbright scholarship at UCLA, his 7-year-old was at a magnet elementary school, a high-performing student, as was his 12-year-old," Moore said. He described their home as "organized and nicely adorned" with drawings by the children and photos of a smiling family. In short, there was nothing to suggest the violence that ended the suburban idyll...
...Perhaps not, but even the officers admit that their presence is only a short-term fix to an extremely complicated problem - an endemic lack of respect for traditional institutions among a generation of Britons like those loitering on the Craylands Estate. It would be too expensive, not to mention unpleasant, to have police patrolling every square inch of a town like Pitsea. And anyway,what good could they do in the long run, when schools, youth clubs and even families have failed? When the large, hysterical mother of one of the young men stopped by police came running in response...
...offering to help banks raise up to $88 billion of new capital, either by buying preference shares in the institutions or encouraging commercial sources to invest. Together with an extension of the Bank of England's special liquidity scheme, which will now make $350 billion available to banks in short-term loans, the package is intended to stabilize the banking system and foster the sector's recovery. It can be implemented without any new legislation or parliamentary votes...
...lack of enthusiasm was not reflected in the auction rooms, which were well attended over the weekend with collectors from throughout the region, including Singapore, China and Indonesia. But Zhao Wuji's "7 Aout 2000" sold for $543,156 - over $44,000 short of Sotheby's low-end estimate of $587,500 - and several pieces, including paintings by star contemporary Chinese artists Zhang Xiaogang and Yue Minjun, went unsold at the modern and contemporary Asian art sale on Oct. 4. Many say the unimpressive results were a combination of already overinflated price estimates and the dismal economy. "Particularly with...