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Having baked a layer cake of fraud, Frankel sought to add some icing by establishing a charitable trust with connections to the Vatican--the ultimate cover. Through a prominent New York City attorney, Thomas Bolan, Frankel met with Father Peter Jacobs, a gadabout clergyman who has ties to New York luminaries, including Walter Cronkite. Jacobs introduced Frankel to Monsignor Emilio Colagiovanni, a Vatican official. Frankel claimed that his St. Francis of Assisi Foundation would distribute more than $2 billion to Catholic charities. He took to obsessively studying the lives of the saints, almost as avidly as he consulted astrological charts...
...30th and Catalina, a colorless flatland marked by the concrete cake boxes of light industry, the driver of the Lincoln has jammed on the brakes and is bolting on foot as Atkinson turns the corner in pursuit. The backseat passenger hotfoots it in the other direction, and the front passenger slides cleanly across the seat, perhaps unseen by Atkinson. That passenger stands at the door, levels a .357 magnum at the squad car and fires several rounds. He is wearing a SAY NO TO DRUGS SHIRT. There is $7,000 worth of cocaine in the glove box and a shotgun...
Carty says her college experience was characterized less by extracurricular activities than by the friends she made. What she remembers most about college, she says, was "wearing a silly bathrobe and talking for hours." One evening, a friend who was a gourmet cook was baking a chocolate cake from scratch. Before being served, the cake caved in like a disappointing souffle...
...including Disney, six HBO channels, Showtime and Cinemax--than I ever got with cable. I was especially pleased to find those Larry Sanders reruns and relieved that although the program airs inconveniently at suppertime, the DISHPlayer gives me a choice of two different ways to eat my cake and have my Larry too: I can record the show on my old VCR by simply pointing and clicking at a weekly, onscreen program guide. Or--this is an especially cool feature--I can pause the program (or even a live event) for up to half an hour by storing...
McGinty and Curto's 9-7 win at No. 3 doubles was the icing on the cake...