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POPS10 legs, 4800 books and 1 passion On a trip this month into the rutted hills, where about 300 people regularly borrow books from him, he reminisced about a visit to the National Library in the capital, Bogotá, where he was stunned by the building’s immense collection and its Art Deco design. “I felt so ordinary in Bogotá,” Mr. Soriano said. “My place is here.” Very nice story....
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POPSOil Trophy, Abu Dhabi To Buy The Chrysler Building Boston Properties closed on its purchase of the GM Building on Monday with investment partners Kuwait and Qatar, and will complete the purchase of three other former Macklowe properties over the next few months. Developer Harry Macklowe was forced to sell the assets after taking a personal loan on the GM Building and other family assets to raise nearly $7 billion to buy a city package of former Equity Office buildings. The credit markets tanked right after completing that deal in July and Macklowe was unable to refinance the short-term debt causing him to sell the four buildings to Boston Properties and return the Equity portfolio to lender Deutsche Bank.
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POPSBrokers On The NYSE Floor Break Into Applause As attorney general in 2004, Mr. Spitzer staged a press conference to announce the arrest of 18 people connected to an escort service operating in New York City that served as a front for a prostitution ring. "This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multi-tiered management structure," Mr. Spitzer, who oversaw the investigation, said in a statement at the time. "It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring, and now its owners and operators will be held accountable." While his announcement left his staff devastated, his enemies — many of whom Mr. Spitzer accumulated as attorney general when he convened high-profile conflict-of-interest investigations into Merrill Lynch, AIG, and other big-name firms — rejoiced. Footage reportedly showed brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange breaking into applause. http://www.nysun.com/article/72640?page_no=1
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POPSBathrooms Are The New Kitchen First kitchens were the new living room, the place where people lavished money and time and went to extremes to personalize and customize. Now, bathrooms are the new kitchens being done up in elaborate Victorian, Georgian and Art Deco themes. --Ann Rafalko
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