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Actors Buy Brentwood Modular Mansion

March 4, 2012 by · Comments Off on Actors Buy Brentwood Modular Mansion 

Actors Buy Brentwood Modular Mansion, Mega movie star Harrison Ford and “Brothers and Sisters” actress Calista Flockhart started dating in 2002, a year after she adopted her son Liam. The very private couple tied the knot in June of 2010 while Ford was filming Cowboys and Aliens. Now Real Estalker reports that they quietly purchased a new home together in L.A.

They reportedly bought the sprawling, nearly 14,000 square-foot home for $12.65 million. I’m surprised that a house with such a hefty price tag has such a prominent garage (assuming this is the front of the house).

The house was newly constructed and originally priced at over $15 million when it first went on the market in early 2010.

The house has 7 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms–plenty of room for family members to visit. Ford has 4 grown children and 3 grandchildren.

Like it? It’s a lot of white, but as a newly built house I assume it was staged to sell and is probably a lot warmer with Ford and Flockhart’s furnishings.

Author Buys River Tay Mansion

March 4, 2012 by · Comments Off on Author Buys River Tay Mansion 

Author Buys River Tay Mansion, MILLIONAIRE HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling, who scribbled her first book about the boy wizard while an unemployed, single mother, has bought a 19th-century mansion.

The writer is to live in isolated Killiechassie House on the banks of the River Tay in Perthshire.

Estate agent Finlayson Hughes described the property as a ‘most attractive’ family home in a highly sought-after part of Scotland

The luxurious property comes complete with a sycamore tree said to have sheltered Bonnie Prince Charlie during the ill-fated Jacobite Rising of 1745.

Estate agent Finlayson Hughes described the property as a ‘most attractive’ family home in a highly sought-after part of Scotland.

Contractors are at work putting the finishing touches to the house.

Rowling, whose books have sold in their millions, jealously guards her secrecy and has given strict orders that the price is not to be revealed.

Tom Clancy Novels Patriot Games, Clear And Present Danger

February 6, 2012 by · Comments Off on Tom Clancy Novels Patriot Games, Clear And Present Danger 

Tom Clancy Novels Patriot Games, Clear And Present Danger, Clear and Present Danger is a novel by Tom Clancy, written in 1989, and is a canonical part of the Jack Ryan universe. In the novel, Jack Ryan is thrown into the position of CIA Acting Deputy Director (Intelligence) and discovers that he is being kept in the dark by his colleagues who are conducting a covert war against a drug cartel based in Colombia.

The title of the book is based on the legal phrase “clear and present danger”.
The United States Coast Guard Cutter Panache intercepts a yacht in the Caribbean Sea, discovering two men cleaning up after killing a man and his family. Through a mock execution, the Coast Guardsmen force the executioners to confess to the murders.

It is later learned that the murdered man was part of a drug cartel money laundering scheme.

Hearing of this atrocity, the President (who is unnamed in the novel) calls for a change of direction in the War on Drugs. He feels compelled to take drastic measures against drug trafficking because his challenger, J. Robert Fowler, has rallied the public behind the administration’s failure to curb the drug trade.

The president initiates covert operations within Colombia and a step-up of operations against aircraft believed to be distributing narcotics. Three major players help the plan reach fruition:

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