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...system worked so well that Santacruz may be hard to replace. "He has more corporate knowledge in his little finger," says a DEA agent, "than anybody else down there has in his whole body." That's why Santacruz's arrest is seen as wiping out the cartel's trade. "With the capture of Gilberto Rodr?guez Orejuela and Santacruz, the Cali cartel has crumpled," Serrano said. "I think the justice system will give the maximum penalties that a criminal like Santacruz deserves...
...JUST AS WELL SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH HASN'T given up his day job. His brief life as an author has been one setback after another. First he saw his $4.5 million advance drop to one buck to avoid the appearance of impropriety, though his agent is still due her $675,000 commission from his royalties. And now, thanks to last week's warning from the House ethics committee,he has to pay for the book tour out of his own pocket...
...assets are worth somewhere between $84,000 and $373,000.) But he is certainly moving quickly to become so. Gingrich is the first member of Congress, if not the first author, to have a fiction and a nonfiction book published within days of each other. Meanwhile, he has an agent shopping 1945 around Hollywood, where screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct) facetiously rejected it as having too much of the loveless sex and mindless violence that Bob Dole deplores...
Newtie isn't the only one in the Gingrich family with literary aspirations. Gay activist CANDACE GINGRICH, his half-sister, has retained a literary agent and plans to write her "kind of unique" life story. As for her half-brother's books, she says she doesn't plan to read them...
Thomas, 39, operator of the Amateur Action BBS in Milpitas, California, made headlines last year when he and his wife Carleen, 40, were indicted for transmitting pornographic material to a government agent in Tennessee. A jury in Memphis wasted little time ruling that the images--which included pictures of women having sex with animals--were obscene. But his case raised the tricky constitutional question of which locale's community standards should have been used to make that judgment: Tennessee's Bible Belt, California's Bay Area or the virtual community of cyberspace...