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...jurors filed in and Wardel "Woody" Federson, took the stand. For some reason almost everyone associated with the trial has a nickname - there's Combs' co-defendant Jamal "Shyne" Barrow, Combs' bodyguard Anthony "Wolf" Jones, Combs' ex-girlfriend Jennifer "J.Lo" Lopez, and of course, Combs himself, a.k.a. Puff Daddy, Puffy and, most ridiculously, P-diddy. Brafman stood behind a podium a short distance from the witness box to cross-examine Fenderson, who was the driver of the alleged getaway car, a Lincoln Navigator, on the night of the shootings. Brafman has a strong voice and speaks in a loud, aggressive...
INDICTED. JAMAL ("Shyne") BARROW, 19, aspiring rapper and protege of Sean ("Puffy") Combs, in the Times Square-area nightclub shooting that wounded three and brought a fleeing Combs and actress girlfriend Jennifer Lopez to a Manhattan precinct for questioning; for attempted murder; in New York City. Lopez testified before the grand jury. So did Combs, who faces possible indictment for illegal weapons possession. Combs is also the target of lawsuits by two of the victims...
...than 12 hours--weeping and handcuffed to a bench--before prosecutors said charges against her would not be pursued. Combs was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and possession of stolen property (police say the gun was stolen); he was released on $10,000 bail. Another rapper, Jamal Barrow (a.k.a. Shyne, a new artist on Combs' Bad Boy label), was charged with attempted murder for allegedly pulling out a gun and firing when someone in the club insulted Puffy...
...novelist. Their treasury of more than 400 epistles renders a more definitive portrait of America's past 99 years than would all the centennial books laid decade to decade. Some entries are moving (Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter from a Birmingham, Ala., jail), some comical (fugitive Clyde Barrow's 1934 note to Henry Ford, praising his "dandy" V8 getaway car). They add up to an exceptional bedside companion...
...share her passion. Her annual Romantic Times Booklovers' Convention draws some 5,000 and features a male beauty pageant and a costume ball. During a 1997 Romantic Times Convention in Baton Rouge, La., as hundreds of lady authors, would-be authors and romance-novel lovers milled about, Lady Barrow (she bought herself an English title) regally strolled the floor, greeting fans eager not just to meet her but also to pat the pet chicken that often perched on her shoulder. Truly, she swoons all the way to the bank...