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These days Simmons is, as the rappers say, livin' large. His empire brings him an income of $5 million a year. He still prides himself on his jeans-and- sneakers wardrobe, but he drives around town in a white bulletproof Rolls- Royce. He does his business out of his apartment, a triplex penthouse previously owned by Cher in a trendy part of New York's East Village. He drinks Cristal champagne and buys abstract...
...race turned sinister as Election Day neared when drive-by shooters fired at Reynolds' leased car. The candidate was slightly injured by flying glass. Some in Reynolds' camp suspected Savage supporters of instigating the attack. Appearing at his victory celebration with his head still bandaged and wearing the bulletproof vest that he has been using for more than a month, Reynolds hailed the outcome as a "repudiation of racial politics...
...tempts female cops to try to blend in and be one of the boys. All too often that means enduring the lewd jokes transmitted over police-car radios and the sexist remarks in the halls. In most places it means wearing an uncomfortable uniform designed for a man, including bulletproof vests that have not been adapted to women's figures. The atmosphere is made worse because about 3% of supervisors over the rank of sergeant are women, in part owing to lack of seniority. Milwaukee police officer Kay Hanna remembers being reprimanded for going to the bathroom while on duty...
...current question is, what will happen toJeff Dahmer? We know, at least, that he won't beshot, for he'll spend the entire trial behind aneight-foot high bulletproof wall separating himfrom ogling spectators. In twenty years, let'sassume that he'll be in an insane asylum,prevented by a strait-jacket from munching his ownbody parts. In any case, we will have more or lessforgotten about J.D. and his merry apartment.The SunJeff Dahmer...
...chant "Ceausescu, Ceausescu!" Gamsakhurdia apparently takes seriously the reference to Romania's toppled, and summarily executed, dictator. For the past three weeks he has barricaded himself inside the Georgian parliament, where he is guarded by hundreds of National Guardsmen. When he ventures out, it is in one of two bulletproof Mercedes, for which Gamsakhurdia spent $460,000. But he bristles at being compared with the Romanian. "These people do not know what a dictator really is," he fumes, his dark eyes smoldering. "Could you really imagine such actions and demonstrations if I was a dictator...