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...practices and a worrisome, if not illegal, form of real estate discrimination. The enforceability of anti-investor clauses is still in question, but Hilton says Meritage's attorneys have assured him that his company's pending cases against investors "will stand up," and no investor has yet filed a suit against the anti-investor measures. In the meantime, it appears the investors may have trouble erasing an image, fair or not, as the bad guys of this housing boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enter the Flipbusters | 8/25/2005 | See Source »

...created for the event is destroyed during the festival's climax: the ritualistic incineration of the Burning Man, the 12-m effigy that dominates the camp until the festival's last night. Naturally, there's a great sponsorship opportunity here for kerosene manufacturers?but anyone in a suit and tie stands little chance of making it past the gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Storm | 8/22/2005 | See Source »

...created for the event is destroyed during the festival's climax: the ritualistic incineration of the Burning Man, the 12-m effigy that dominates the camp until the festival's last night. Naturally, there's a great sponsorship opportunity here for kerosene manufacturers - but anyone in a suit and tie stands little chance of making it past the gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Storm | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

...Fiennes a star as the silky Nazi sadist in Schindler's List and the enigmatic lover in The English Patient. But those hits, both of which won Oscars for Best Picture, are, respectively, 12 and nine years old. Since then, he has used his wattage to choose parts that suit or stretch his range. He is less worried about his payday or the films' potential grosses, although he can wince over those that failed. Of The Avengers, a high-profile flop, he rues "some spark not there" with co-star Uma Thurman and curses an inapt chapeau: "I looked crap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Ever Happened to Ralph Fiennes? | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...Sherwood, who is fighting a civil suit filed by a woman less than half his age with whom he says he had a five-year affair. No criminal charges were filed against Sherwood after his mistress, who is now 29, called 911 and told police Sherwood had tried to choke her during a backrub. But she has sued the four-term Republican from Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for $5.5 million, saying he repeatedly struck her, violently yanked her hair and tried to strangle her, promising after each incident never to do it again and begging her not to leave him. Sherwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congressional Scandal Roundup | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

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