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That drama appeared to end two weeks ago, when a jury convicted Autumn Jackson, 22, the woman who claims to be Cosby's illegitimate daughter, of extortion for trying to coax $40 million out of Dear Old (Maybe) Dad in exchange for her not taking her story to the tabloids. But the soap opera keeps taking new twists. The issue of whether Cosby really is Autumn's father--he denies it, while admitting he had sex with her mother--was ruled irrelevant at the trial. But last week on CNBC's Rivera Live, Cosby attorney Jack Schmitt dropped a bombshell...
...Mike Carter would not awaken. He was dead. "Dustin had to drag me [away from Mike]," Nicole says. With her clothes lost in the woods, Kaiser removed his T shirt for Nicole to wear. As they walked out of the woods to search for help, Kaiser managed to coax a laugh from his friend. "Look, Nicole," he said, pointing to his bloodied scalp. "My head is splitting...
...just grabs me by the heart when I think of Larry Bird trying to coax every last ounce of energy and heart out of that lackluster Pacers squad in an attempt to defeat his own Boston Celtics...
...abrupt turnaround Sunday and gave the U.N. just sixty days, starting May 1, to track down and evacuate every last refugee. After Sunday's maiden voyage carried just 40 refugees from Kisangani to their destination in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, Richardson's first priority will be to coax some cooperation out of Kabila -- and perhaps an extension. "This will be an important test of his diplomatic skills," says TIME's Douglas Waller, "because it's a much more complicated situation than the hostage negotiations Richardson has pulled off in the past. Kabila has proved himself quite obstreperous." More difficult...
...huge gamble. But Arnault, 48, savors this kind of contrariness like one of his champagnes. "I'm not interested in anything else but the youngest, the brightest and the very, very talented," he says. And the very, very profitable. Arnault has managed, and that is the word, to coax money from top-shelf businesses. Last year LVMH earned $649 million on sales of $5.4 billion. Says he: "I have always been interested in two things: the arts and business...