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He used to work with Stein through Prudential Douglas Elliman, but they fell out over a sale. Meanwhile, Newsday says police took DNA and clothing fibers from the nine workers who had painted the 16th-floor terrace red. Despite all that, the NYPD has named no suspects, and hasn't yet made any arrests. .
Spirits, sacred stones - and how to dowse your aura
In the bright docks of Ilfracombe, the sturdy MS Oldenburg rocked in the harbour as beefy men packed rucksacks and provisions into large plastic containers and dragged them aboard. After collecting my ticket in the harbour master's office, I felt a tap on my shoulder. The striking appearance of my guide, Lawrence Main, should not perhaps have come as a surprise, considering the nature of his interests, but he was monolithically tall and tanned with sea-blue eyes glinting from the depths of a wild grey mane of dreadlocks and the white horses of his long beard. He looked like Neptune or an Indian sadhu, albeit one in tiny shorts, a red fleece, sandals and bum bag. As chairman of the mysterious Society of Ley Hunters, he had invited The Observer along on one of their annual holidays, to celebrate May Day on the island of Lundy off the north coast of Devon, in the hope this coverage would attract new members who share their passion for dowsing and stone circles.
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Slugging It Out
But if a gadfly candidate could win 22 against Paul even before the controversies he's brought upon himself with his current presidential run, what could a a real opponent do now? Clearly Paul will have an extraordinary money advantage, but this race is not one he can win with money. His constituents have seen him on the national stage, and will either re-elect him (warts and all) or reject him. No amount of advertising can change most people's views of a politician that they now know extremely well. Rather, they'll decide whether they want to be represented by the presidential candidate they've seen so much of in the last year, or a traditional, conventional conservative. Unless the Ronulans are willing to move to Texas en masse, he's probably in serious trouble. Posted by Brian Faughnan at 12:48 PM filed in: 2008 | Permalink | E-mail the author | E-mail article .
The CD has not left the building
This year began with good news for the beleaguered record industry. In the crucial sales week between Christmas and new year, 3m songs were legally downloaded in Britain, twice as many as in the same last gasp of 2006. But among the figures released by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) was one the digital lobby would probably prefer to have buried. Of all albums sold in 2007, less than 5% were downloads. In the albums market, digital has made barely any inroads. The media may herald the death of CDs, but consumers seem wedded to the shiny silver discs. "The media’s obsession with downloads creates the impression that there is only a digital market for music," says Matt Philips, the BPI’s director of communications. "That is not the case. Singles, certainly, have been revolutionised by legal digital services, but with albums, most people still prefer a physical product.
Path blunder may delay cancer centre
HOSPITAL and council managers are joining forces to try to prevent a technical blunder delaying the opening of Oxford's new £125m cancer centre. Planning experts said the opening of the world-leading cancer centre could be jeopardised by a legal error in diverting two footpaths running across the site. The original paths needed to be diverted due to construction work on the car park for the cancer and haematology centre. But developers built a wall over part of the proposed new route - meaning the paths had to be diverted again. Now Oxfordshire County Council is being asked to fast-track the new application - which would usually take three years - to stop it preventing the centre's planned handover to the hospital trust this summer.
Come Together, Right Now!
The movement was unable to stop a funding bill or be united in demanding accountability for the war criminals that have been instrumental in destroying three countries, ours included. Now, after nearly 5 years of the illegal occupation of Iraq and over 5 years of the immoral occupation of Afghanistan, we all know, even those who watch the propaganda news networks and are in denial, that this war is not only gone horribly wrong from day one, but is a sham based on deceit. Not only has our foreign policy suffered profoundly under BushCo and Congress Inc., but the foreign war expenditures without a commensurate raise in revenue have driven our country deeply into a quagmire of debt. Our trade deficit is the largest it has ever been and 54,000 homes went into foreclosure in October.
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