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...photographer--certainly not by one of the 10 men now under investigation--nor do they seriously suspect that the driver was involved in a murder plot. But one of the reasons investigating magistrate Herve Stephan is so insistent on finding the driver, and completing a nut-by-bolt examination of the wrecked Mercedes, is to eliminate any possible suspicion of a conspiracy. Thus the search for the Uno continues...
...refugee herself, recalls their first meeting at a New Hampshire resort where they both worked in the summer of 1957--he as a busboy, she as a waitress. Eva recalls the encounter ("He had a bad accent, even though he doesn't think so!") as a lightning bolt: "I walked into this room, and there were a bunch of guys. One shook my hand, and it was, you know, like shaking a limp fish. But then there was this really good-looking guy who shook my hand, and I was just like, wow!" She still smiles at the memory, rolls...
...thing, it says the notion that small investors, inexperienced in down markets, would bolt at the first sign of trouble is all wrong. It was the pros who fled on Monday: if these guys had been on the Titanic, they would have been fighting the children for lifeboats. The pros were saved by the little guys on Tuesday. Most folks did nothing; others couldn't wait to "buy the dips," just as they had been counseled to do so often. "I have been through this a few times," says Kooshy Afshar, the owner of a small printing company in Beverly...
...robbers, funny-money artists and miscellaneous boodlers after their inevitable job-related mishaps and sending them forth to steal again in novel after novel. His best-known wrongdoer is an amusing burglar named Dortmunder, whose fumble-thumbed approach to grand larceny is that of a tax accountant trying to bolt together a backyard barbecue. The unstated, slyly effective joke of the Dortmunder series (The Hot Rock; What's the Worst That Could Happen?) is that everyone in the hero's extensive social set is staid, sober, contented, BarcaLounger middle-class and thoroughly crooked...
...autumnal colors, Shirley Allen, 51, has been facing down the law for the past month. On Sept. 22, Christian County sheriff's deputies knocked on the door of her two-bedroom farmhouse to serve her with a court order for psychiatric evaluation. She met them with a 12-gauge bolt-action shotgun. They backed off and set up the siege...