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...also left huge debts, chief among them a settlement he owed former clients, Anthony Lanasa and his sister Josephine Abbott, from whom he had embezzled the $275,000. After her husband's death, Willey lashed out at Lanasa. "She called me at 3 in the morning and said I killed her husband," he says. "She called two or three times until we got the warrant saying that she couldn't call us." Still, Willey's famous temper (her nickname "Irish" was on her license plate) would not be aimed at the President. Just days after he had allegedly groped...
...into his own pocket. Lyons and Edwards also allegedly went to Loewen in 1995 after the company lost a bankrupting $500 million civil suit in Mississippi and said they could get the verdict reversed for $2 million. In January 1996 Loewen settled for $175 million. Lyons and Edwards then called to scold Loewen for settling when their influence could have saved the company more money. Even so, Lyons and Edwards demanded the $2 million, claiming they had spent it helping the firm. The company wired $500,000 to a Milwaukee account but asked for receipts before sending the rest. Edwards...
...middle of the desert with the help of an antenna strung from a cactus, a short-wave radio and a portable fax machine. In 1985 he helped set up Surfline, a Huntington Beach, Calif., firm that distributes daily wave forecasts at a charge of $1.50 to those who call its 900-976-SURF hot line. So accurate are Collins' forecasts that two years ago, bodyboarding champ Mike Stewart used them to surf waves spawned by a single storm across a distance of 7,000 miles, from Tahiti to Alaska...
...conspiracies where none existed. Lazarus says a weekly dinner at a Chinese restaurant was a meeting of the "full cabal," but conservatives say some liberal clerks attended and nothing sinister occurred. And they maintain that he overstates the degree to which experienced jurists really let recent law-school graduates call the shots...
...might call it a second-chance African revolution. What every country striding forward shows is that progress comes first to those who adopt the principles and practices of capitalist democracy. There are some common lessons here that any African nation can learn: free-market economics works, including privatization, entrepreneurship and often the stern measures of wholesale reform to jump-start failed economies. So does agricultural self-sufficiency, starting from the bottom up. And decentralization, spreading development outside urban capitals to the vast rural majority. And women's empowerment...