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Fast Forward Jewish Hedge Fund King Steven Cohen Buys Famed Picasso Painting for $155M
Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen has bought a famous Picasso painting from casino mogul Steve Wynn for a record price, according to a report in the New York Post on Tuesday. Cohen, who runs $15 billion hedge fund firm SAC Capital Advisors, purchased “Le Rêve,” a 1932 oil painting of Picasso’s mistress, for $155…
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Fast Forward Fallen Tycoon Boris Berezovsky Died From Hanging, Coroner Says
Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, whose body was found in the locked bathroom of his luxury mansion near London over the weekend, died by hanging, British police said on Monday. Police, who had earlier removed his body from his home to conduct an autopsy, said there were no signs of a violent struggle, adding that further…
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Fast Forward Obama Passover at White House Will Include Sara Netanyahu’s Seder Plate
President Barack Obama will mark Passover with a White House Seder on Monday, part of a personal tradition he began during his 2008 presidential campaign, a spokesman said. Obama will sit down with family and friends for the dinner celebrating the first night of Passover, when Jews around the world retell the story of liberation…
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Fast Forward Anthony Lewis, Retired New York Times Columnist, Dies at 85
Anthony Lewis, both a champion and a critic of the U.S. legal system and press rights in a newspaper career spanning more than 50 years, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Monday. He was 85. A retired New York Times reporter and columnist who won two Pulitzer prizes, Lewis died of complications of…
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Fast Forward Mystery of Tycoon Boris Berezovsky’s Death Deepens as British Plan Autopsy
British police removed the body of exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky from his mansion near London on Monday before conducting an autopsy that could shed some light on his sudden unexplained death. Once known as the grey cardinal of Kremlin politics, the former billionaire power broker helped Vladimir Putin come to power before fleeing in…
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Fast Forward Israel Mulls Buffer Zone on Border With Syria
An Israeli general has raised the possibility of creating a buffer zone in Syria, in cooperation with local forces wary of jihadist fighters, should President Bashar al-Assad be toppled. Major-General Yair Golan said “many hundreds” of radical Islamists were fighting in Syria’s two-year-old civil war and could “take root” in Israel’s northern neighbour should Assad…
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Fast Forward Israel Resumes Tax Payments to Palestinians
Israel said on Monday it would restart regular monthly tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority, restoring vital funding days after U.S. President Barack Obama called for confidence-building steps toward peace. Israel began withholding the money – about $100 million in tax revenues it collects each month on behalf of the Authority – in November after…
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Fast Forward Prisoner X Bungled Hezbollah Double Agent Spy Drama: Reports
A reputed Israeli spy known as Prisoner X who died in a jail in Israel in 2010 had been arrested after a bungled and unauthorised bid to recruit a double agent with links to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Australian newspapers reported on Monday. The man, Ben Zygier, was arrested in early 2010 and was held in secret…
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