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...need to fill air time in a slow news week, was the enigma of Carson. Millions saw and liked him 150 times a year, yet he steadfastly hoarded the essence of his personality. "If the conversation edges toward areas in which he feels ill at ease or unwilling to commit himself," wrote Kenneth Tynan, who interviewed Carson for a 1977 New Yorker profile reprinted in the book Show People, "burglar alarms are triggered off, defensive reflexes rise around him like an invisible stockade, and you hear the distant baying of guard dogs...
Minkow knows how to play that gig. He went undercover after getting a call from a prospective investor in a pair of Southern California investment schemes and, posing as someone with extra cash to commit, found enough evidence to allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to shutter the firms in November. They allegedly had conned nearly $26 million from more than 1,200 people, largely by targeting church-affiliated African Americans. In 2003 he managed to shut down another scheme, a California operation that targeted retirement funds worth $813 million. "Barry has a lot of insight into the many ways...
...there's plenty more blame to go around. At a memorial march on Oct. 30, Andrea Azkune, one of Ceberio's friends, said: "When we look at the wall, we will say, 'A friend, a child, a 14-year-old child jumped from up there.' But he didn't commit suicide. He was suicided. We all suicided...
Recruiters have been given new sweeteners to dangle. The week before Christmas, the Guard and Army Reserve announced that the signing bonus for soldiers willing to commit to six years of service would be increased to $15,000--from $5,000 for the Guard and $8,000 for the Reserve. And although the active-duty Army has been meeting its recruitment goals, planners are taking precautions to keep the numbers healthy. The Army has added 375 soldiers to the ranks of its 5,654 recruiters. Active-duty G.I.s can now earn as much as $70,000 for college, up from...
...Drunken Horses. Ghobadi will produce and write the film, his prolific pace growing out of a belief that film can change the world - even if it kills him. "In the last five years, the hardships I have witnessed have pushed me on more than three occasions to try to commit suicide," he says. "But on the other hand, I have no other option than to continue doing this. Maybe one day a result will come out. We have to have hope...