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...reality is somewhat less dramatic. Piaf was actually born in Paris' Tenon Hospital, according to her biographer, Jean-Dominique Brierre. She grew up poor but was never blind, though she did have an inflamed cornea that was cured by ordinary medical treatment. She was also cleared of any involvement in Leplée's death. "Piaf didn't invent these myths," says Brierre, "but she knew it wouldn't harm her image to let certain rumors lie. With the facts skewed, her life was like a character in a novel - a romantic novel full of mythical relationships. I think this...
...While Tenon paid 2.2 billion New Zealand dollars for the land in 1996, several estimates say Harvard paid only $650 million, or 970 New Zealand dollars, at the December auction...
...When the government sold the cutting rights to Tenon, it was made at a time when the export demand for forest products was extremely hated. There were groups of people against this deal. And so the cutting rights were overvalued,” Paku said...
Despite selling many of its forest assets, Tenon maintains confidence in the resilience of the timber industry as a major source of profit...
...forests, it will continue to enjoy the advantage of proximity to one of the world’s most sustainable sources of good quality timber—the forest plantations of the Central North Island of New Zealand,” according to the Jan. 21 notice to Tenon shareholders...