Russell Crowe has reached an amicable settlement with the New York hotel clerk he was charged with assaulting earlier this year.
Crowe allegedly hit Nestor Estrada in the face with a telephone during a late-night altercation in June and was officially charged with one count of second-degree assault.
The Oscar winner was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court and ordered to return on September 14. Crowe has since publicly apologized to Estrada and his family for his violent actions, which escalated after the star failed to get a working telephone line to his wife Danielle in Australia, while staying at the Mercer Hotel.
The actor has reportedly agreed to pay Estrada $100,000.
Saving the Tigers from extinction It was a hurriedly organized citizen’s meeting at Guwahati Press Club, where serious concerns were expressed at the increasing trend of poaching and killing of wildlife in various parts of Assam.
The EIP factor - what you should learn from it When we grow older, or get older for the sake of the argument, we tend to start seeing the world only from one side. We tend to believe, no, not believe but know, how things are done. If you are smart, you understand that it shouldn't be that way, you understand this is wrong.
Whether we want to admit it or not, even now, in year 2012, there are still big gender biases in some fields of life. While it's generally understandable that men should do more heavy lifting than women and knitting fits a bit better for the women (even though I am aware even here there are many people who want to disagree), art is one of those things where our gender really should not play any significant role at all. And within the past decade things have started to change even on this front and even on the more conservative arenas such as Bukowskis - the top Nordic auction house.
