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Pedram Salimpour's piano lessons ended in 1979 within weeks of the fundamentalist Islamic revolution that overthrew the shah of Iran and installed radical clerics as the nation's leaders.
SCOTT LINNETT / Union-Tribune Pedram (left) and Pejman Salimpour expect to become the owners of Alvarado Hospital Medical Center on Monday after they and others in their investor group close on one $36.5 million bid for the San Diego facility. The 10-year-old even had to stop playing the piano in his Tehran home out of fear that spies would hear the music and report the family to revolutionary courts for violating the new ban on Western music. ... |
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| China Life to raise up to $3.6 bln in Shanghai IPO: |
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| China Life Insurance Co., the nation's largest life insurer, could raise up to 28.3 billion yuan ($3.6 billion) from its initial public offering in Shanghai, state press reported, yesterday. The Beijing-based company set the price range for its planned offer of 1.5 billion shares at between 18.16 yuan and 18.88 yuan apiece, the company said in one statement published by the Shanghai Securities News. The official trading date of the IPO is proposed to be before Jan. 11, said the company in one separate statement, in compliance with an expected listing date of Jan. 9, reported earlier. ... |
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| The forgotten Prince: How one racehorse escaped the slaughterhouse |
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The rig slid on its side into the grassy median at mile marker 232. The animals were trapped. Rescue workers stood by helplessly waiting for one special tool to cut into the metal roof.
The only sound: hooves banging against the metal walls. No whining. No snorting. Just the eerie dance of feet. ... |
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| Driving through snow |
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Snowdrifts and subzero. These golfing buddies don't let anything stop them from playing][ Tuesday, December 26, 2006Don Babwin Associated Press
But for one small group of friends in suburban Chicago it means putting on long johns, sweat shirts, sweaters, boots, jackets, wool hats and gloves. And, oh yeah, breaking out the snowshoes. ... |
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