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That joke, making the rounds on Wall Street, is a not-too-subtle poke at Federal Reserve boss Alan Greenspan, who has recently offered some unusual--even heretical--views on why he'll continue to raise interest rates to slow things down...
...Gore '69 entered the race last year as the Democratic frontrunner, riding the wave of New Democrat ideas that propelled his boss, Bill Clinton, into office...
Officers Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss, Richard Murphy and Edward McMellon were looking for a rapist when they spotted Diallo at the front door of his apartment building. And though other witnesses saw and heard things from a distance, the only close-up testimony comes from the cops. Officer Carroll's account would be pivotal to the court case. "The way he was peering up and down the block," said Carroll from the witness stand, had made the police suspicious of Diallo. "He stepped backward, back into the vestibule as we were approaching, like he didn't want to be seen...
Since testifying against former employer and Mob boss John Gotti, SALVATORE (Sammy the Bull) GRAVANO has been organized crime's No. 1 pariah. But turning state's evidence looks like petty theft when compared with the sins Gravano may have committed against Mafia style. Last week the former hit man, 54, was arrested with his wife, 24-year-old son and 27-year-old daughter and charged with financing an interstate drug ring that specialized in selling tabs of the rave drug Ecstasy to teenagers. Teenagers! Even worse, Gravano's alleged pushers were members of a white-supremacist youth gang...
...Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny), it's a story more machined than created, in which Oz Oseransky (Matthew Perry), an innocent Canadian dentist, gets involved with a semiretired mob hit man (Bruce Willis) and a legion of his former colleagues who want to whack Willis for ratting out their boss. Somehow Oz survives, and gets the gunman's gorgeous ex-wife (Natasha Henstridge) for good measure...