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Picasso`s mystery collector

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Roberta Smith devoted an article in “The Week in Review” section of the New York Times to the guessing game about the anonymous buyer. Bemoaning the “irksome” secrecy of art sales, she conjured a rogue’s gallery of possible bidders, including “Buyer X,” a “puppet master,” a “Russian oligarch” fearing “home invasion or too much unfriendly attention from Vladimir Putin,” and “someone with vast sums of money stashed in a Swiss bank account or a dubious tax shelter.” All very James Bond. Buyer X must be smiling.

Pole Dancing Arab-American From Michigan Crowned Miss USA

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A 24-year-old Arab American from Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the 2010 Miss USA title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown. Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Mich., won the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after strutting confidently in an orange and gold…

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Money Never Sleeps

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Stone’s challenge this time around was to make his protagonist, Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), a hotshot, 20-something banker, sympathetic in an age when fresh-out-of-school Wall Street types are vilified as bottle-service-swilling douchebags. On the face of it, the casting of LaBeouf, whose grating, agitated swagger has never seemed more appropriate than in a trading room, runs counter to that goal. But his character is redeemed by the following “good-guy” factors:

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Millions of Mexicans Refuse To Register Their Cell Phones

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Millions of Mexicans Refuse To Register Their Cell Phones A plan to register every cell phone in Mexico into a centralized government database has been declared a disaster after millions of citizens banded together and refused to hand over their personal information. In a country that sees as many as 6,000 attempted extortion calls every…

The U.K. like leaders who eat barbed wire for breakfast

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David Cameron faces toughest hand of cards ever dealt a new prime minister The Conservative party leader has no majority and an uncertain ally. He is not on top, but on probation David Cameron at No 10 Downing Street. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian David Cameron‘s arrival in Downing Street at 8.45pm tonight saw…