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Launched with a 2003 miniseries, BSG evolved into a sci-fi tale of the war on terrorism. Because Cylon "skin-jobs" pass for human--some believe they are human--the fleet fell into the kind of paranoia that, post-9/11, saw a sleeper-cell agent on every commuter flight. It also dramatized the danger of religious extremism: the Cylons are monotheists who see their human creators (who worship a version of the Greco-Roman pantheon) as heathens...
According to city records, Harvard Real Estate-Allston merged with another company, Crown Mechanic LLC, on Dec. 26. John S. Whiting, the registered agent for Crown and the head of Brookline Machine, chartered Crown on Dec. 11. After Crown had been created, he filed on Dec. 14 to give Harvard the rights to execute all transfers of real estate and deeds in Crown’s name...
...think a man who deceived so many friends, associates, charities, and lied to them openly for so long, has a problem being a little bit deceitful in surrendering his books and records?" asks a former Los Angeles-based Treasury Department special agent who for decades specialized in white-collar fraud. "Of course he's hidden money; we're talking $50 or $100 million. It's a pittance to a guy like Madoff. Hiding money is a game for criminal minds, and there is no way Madoff's ever going to provide 100% of the information unless it exonerates...
...nation's economic doldrums are going to slow down the national pastime, there's not much evidence of it happening yet. This past season, baseball blasted a home run, scoring a record $6.5 billion in revenues. During the winter off-season, trade rumors and expensive free-agent signings have kept fans hooked. Struggling media outlets still saw fit to send some 370 journalists to Las Vegas to cover the sport's winter meetings, an annual hardball cattle call packed with rumor-hungry execs, scouts and assorted hangers-on, all looking for the next big deal...
...have a page long enough to list all their problems," says former New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms, who had the great pleasure of analyzing the Tennessee-Detroit game on Thanksgiving for CBS. "Their free-agent signings have been flawed, their drafts have been flawed, the organizational philosophy is flawed. As a coach said to me, 'Wow, they're small, they're not fast, and they're old.' It's unbelievable...