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...MURDERED. ANDREW KISSEL, 46, millionaire real estate developer and brother of "milkshake murder" victim Robert Kissel; by unknown assailants; in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 2005, a Hong Kong court convicted Nancy Kissel, Robert's wife, of bludgeoning the investment banker to death after serving him a milkshake laced with sedatives. Andrew Kissel, who faced federal and state charges that he defrauded lenders of $11 million and bilked a Manhattan real estate cooperative out of $4 million, was discovered tied up in the basement of his rental house with multiple stab wounds. He was expected to plead guilty this month to grand...
Seen schmoozing in a pricey Tribeca loft: supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, whom the New York Post's gossip column Page Six has called a "party-boy billionaire," and Page Six contributor Jared Paul Stern. Also present, but unknown to Stern: an FBI agent and a video camera. They were there to record what Burkle--who had chafed at uncomplimentary and, he thought, untrue items about him in the column--believed was a $220,000 shakedown for kid-glove coverage. The FBI believed it too: the agency has launched a probe into extortion allegations...
...festival when it paid10.5 million for “Little Miss Sunshine,” no doubt hoping to mimic success found in recent indie sensations like “March of the Penguins,” which commanded a cool $77 million at the box office. Unquestionably, otherwise unknown artists benefit from the media frenzy...
...minutes of primetime TV Tuesday night to offer his resignation and call for national unity, before exiting stage right. Two days after a flawed parliamentary election that ended up producing more losers than winners, Thaksin said it was time for him to hand over power to an as yet unknown successor - though he would remain caretaker leader until a new government is formed. "We have no time to quarrel," he said. "I want to see Thai people unite and forget what has happened...
...There he stood, implausibly resolute in his thin white shirt, an unknown Chinese man facing down a lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. 'WHY ARE YOU HERE?' HE SHOUTED AT THE SILENT STEEL HULK. 'YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT CREATE MISERY. My city is in chaos because of you.' The brief encounter between the man and the tank captured an epochal event in the lives of 1.1 billion Chinese: the state clanking with menace, swiveling right and left with uncertainty, is halted...