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上屋頂搵嘢, 見到一大堆舊newsweek, 順手攞起一本翻下, 見到一篇頗有趣嘅報導, 諗住去番newsweek睇下網上版有冇, 但唔識點搵舊料, 惟有逐隻字抄上嚟. 好彩英文好容易, 冇中文咁煩.

Newsweek September 3, 2001

This is not my beautiful house

These are tough times in real estate - even for top economists. Gavyn Davies, Chief international economist at Goldman Sachs and deputy chairman of the BBC, received a rather rude surprise when he checked out one of his townhouses in London recently. A crowd of squatters had moved into his $1.4 million Regency digs - and they were perfectly within their rights. Under London property law, squatters can enter and live in an unoccupied residence so long as there's no forced entry, and can't be evicted by force. The leader of the gang, 19-year-old Duncan Gillespie, squeezed in through the window on Aug. 13, and has since enjoyed the spoils of the global economy. Nine bedrooms, a designer garden and a Jacuzzi-style bath. They were finally thrown out last Saturday, but Davies's troubles aren't over. The squatters'court documentation rather stupidly included a map of Davies's other properties in the area. So where do the fun-loving squatters go next? "One of Gavyn Davies's other houses," says Gillespie the cheeky lodger.