Halle Berry Stalked: Not Unusual If You're Gorgeous

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Halle Berry was terrorized by a stalker for three days—because she's pretty. 

The suspect, Richard Franco, was arrested yesterday after he jumped over the wall surrounding Berry's home for the third time in as many days. At one point, Berry looked through her window and saw Franco staring back at her. He is not "hounding" Berry the way an overly-amorous drunk might "hound" you in a bar for your phone number. He is stalking her. He is threatening her.

And just for the record,  millions of women and men are stalked every year and the vast majority of them look nothing like Halle Berry. According to the National Center for Victims of Crime, 3.4 million people a year are stalked in the U.S. and weapons are used to threaten or harm the victim in one out of five of those cases. Of the women who end up being killed by men they were in a relationship with, 76% of them were stalked first.

Stalkers stalk because they are mentally disturbed, not because a victim is "gorgeous."

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Morgan Stanley cuts Google on margin worries

 

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 Morgan Stanley downgraded Google Inc a notch to "equal-weight," saying the search giant's margins will shrink as it undertakes aggressive hiring and ramps up advertising for new products.

"Given Google's aggressive hiring plans, rising compensation expense, and significant advertising spend on Chrome and other Google products, we expect EBITDA margin to decline in 2011 and 2012," Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt said in a note.
 
Devitt also raised doubts over the ability of the company's newer businesses, such as DoubleClick, Android Market and YouTube, to add to its revenues.

"We see lots of promise from Google's display/mobile/apps businesses, but we believe the consensus incorrectly attributes upside to those businesses and therefore may be overestimating their contribution in future periods," said the analyst, who slashed his target price on the company's stock to $600 from $645.

Shares of the company were down 2.5 percent at $533.12 in morning trading on Nasdaq. They earlier touched a low of $531.24.

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