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Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Many Lives of Rielle Hunter Images Videos -ATN News
Posted by SHAMIM on 8:38 PM
They may seem like wildly different people, but they represent the multiple lives of Rielle Hunter, the woman at the center of the John Edwards adultery scandal, which the former presidential candidate acknowledged last week to ABC News' Bob Woodruff. "I couldn't believe it when I heard the story," Chip Hudson, a veteran horse trainer in Ocala, Fla., who worked with Hunter when she went by her birth name Lisa Druck, told ABCNews.com. "She was a regular kid with a family with a lot of money. Her father commuted back and forth in his own airplane and bought her some very nice horses. She won some prizes for her riding.
But there was another side to the life of luxury lived out by Druck and her two sisters, Roxanne and Melissa. "She and Roxanne were a handful, always getting into trouble around the farm," said a former groomer at Eagle's Nest, the horse farm in Ocala. "Lisa was drop-dead gorgeous -- the pictures now don't do her justice. Very pretty, with blue eyes and blonde hair. And she knew how to drive the men crazy. But she seemed sad and troubled, desperately looking for something."
Her father, the late James Druck, once paid a hit man to kill her prize horse, Henry the Hawk, by rigging wires to electrocute the animal by attaching electrical wires to its ear and rectum, according to an account told to Sports Illustrated in 1992 by horse killer Tommy Burns.
Druck had taken out a $150,000 insurance policy on the animal and was hoping to reap the benefits, Burns told the magazine........
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Call goes out for Marshall Plan to rebuild from Haiti's ruins...........
Posted by SHAMIM on 8:50 PM
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said, "My belief is that Haiti, which has been incredibly hit by different things -- the food and the food prices crisis, then the hurricane, then the earthquake -- needs something which is big, not only a piecemeal approach, but something which will be much bigger to deal with the reconstruction of the country, some kind of a Marshall Plan.
The Marshall Plan was the huge U.S. effort after World War II to rebuild the shattered economies of Western Europe. It was launched by then-Secretary of State George Marshall with the goal of bolstering American allies in Europe as they faced a rising Soviet military threat.
Strauss-Kahn did not offer specifics of what he envisions for a Haiti rebuilding effort, nor did he outline a time frame…………
