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  • Places with the most tourist crime

    Barcelona , your iPhone on the table a few inches from your right hand, when a woman bumps your left arm and spills a drink on you. She apologizes profusely and walks away. A few minutes later, you realize your iPhone has disappeared. Unfortunately, you've just become a statistic, one of thousands of daily victims of "Apple picking," a crime trend aimed at the owners of iPhones ...

  • Rising NBA stars nasty dunk in Finals

    Mike Miller at the rim. Miller did his best to challenge the dunk, but Kawhi has a clear athletic edge in that matchup and took full advantage. The resulting posterization is available for your viewing pleasure ...

  • City property tax hike gets initial OK

    The Harper-Jehl plan raises property taxes but not income taxes, while the Crawford plan raises both, but the income tax includes property tax relief. Here’s how the two plans affect other ...

  • Housebuilder Berkeleys profit rises 26 percent

    LONDON (Reuters) - British housebuilder Berkeley Group Holdings (BKGH.L) posted a 26 percent rise in full year pretax profit and said its 10-year plan to return 1.7 billion pounds to shareholders was on track. The London-focused developer ...

  • The story behind The Exorcist

    Linda Blair starred in the film dramatization, but the real-life story involved a boy (Warner Bros/Everett) Really, though, it doesn't look a day over 20. Director William Friedkin's classic horror film "The Exorcist" had its New York City premiere on June 19, 1973, staking its claim in the pop culture consciousness (with a sledgehammer) and changing the face of horror ...


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Gone Baby Gone [DVD]

Gone Baby Gone [DVD]

It is always a dangerous move when actors, especially movie stars, decide to direct because their work behind the camera is always at risk of being subsumed by their work in front of it. Nobody trusts the clich that all actors really want to do is direct; its too often seen as ... ...

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  • Fountainhead Property Trust Full-time chief executive appointed

    Fountainhead Property Trust had appointed former SA Corporate Real Estate Fund managing director Len van Niekerk as its new chief executive with immediate effect, the listed property firm announced yesterday. Fountainhead said Van Niekerk had 16 years’ investment experience, including as a rated property analyst at Standard Bank and as the head of quoted property at Old Mutual Investment ...

  • SA property is doing fine

    In 2012 property economist Erwin Roode made a few waves with his statement that property prices were overvalued by at least 25 percent. At the time a number of those associated with the industry objected to his appraisal with John Loos, FNB home loans strategist, believing that Rode was not using the most accurate period from which to make his deductions. Loos reasoned that Rode based his ...

  • Dubai Property Developer Charges Investors to Attend Auctions

    Nakheel, one of the biggest property developers in Dubai, choose to make investors at auctions pay to receive the right to bid. A recent auction was held on June 17th for a number of plots and villas in the company's master development in Jumeirah Park.Real or speculative interest in this particular residential development apparently is so propagandize that people do not ask many ...

  • Tightlipped Depp opens up about split

    Lone Ranger actor had kept quiet about their split -- until now. "The last couple years have been a bit bumpy," Depp tells the magazine. "At times, certainly unpleasant, but that's the nature of breakups, I guess, especially when there are kiddies ...

  • Consumer Reports names top toilet paper

    You're standing before a wall of white in the toilet paper aisle of your local retailer, thinking: How much difference can there really be between brands X,Y and Z? So you go with the cheapest, or the one you know best, only to be reminded later that, actually there's a big difference between good and bad TP. That's plain to see in Consumer Reports' toilet paper Ratings, ...

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