In 2007, celebrity power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie purchased this 1800s mansion in New Orleans, sparking a wave of high-profile home buying in the city.

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Wasserstein was personally recruited by David-Weill to help rescue Lazard, which by late 2001 had suffered a wave of high-profile defections and was laboring under the moribund deal market.

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Facebook may have wanted to get ahead of the wave of news that would have inevitably come out about the updated profile pages again, speculation.

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And it's also cresting a wave of enhanced electronic books as one of the most high-profile literary works to take advantage of the new abilities of readers such as Apple's iPad and other tablet computers.

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