And the lobby of the Venetian hotel where 007 and Bond girl Vesper Lynd stay is actually Prague's National Museum on Wenceslas Square, currently closed for reconstruction and scheduled to reopen in June 2016.

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Downstairs, the lobby still bustles with guests returning from shopping on Bond Street, bidding on lots at Christie's or listening to the nightingales sing in Berkeley Square.

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Ambac shares have lost 90% of their value since January 2007 and William Ackman, a short-seller who runs the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, has railed against them (to his own benefit), saying the bond insurers could be insolvent by the second quarter because of their exposures to the structured finance market.

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Julie Pham, a broker at Corcoran Group who has the Bond Street listing, said the views of old brick buildings and water towers from the 1, 500-square-foot terrace and the penthouse windows reflect the "urban alienation" in some of Moby's music and movie soundtracks.

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