Word: conning
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...Obese con who tried to eat his way off scaffold gets reprieve...
...parts mesh, but a certain lifelike uncertainty is sacrificed to the neatness. Happily, writer-director Frank Darabont understands this. He makes you feel the maddening pace of prison time without letting his picture succumb to it. He is also efficient and clever with secondary characters like James Whitmore's con librarian, who's been in so long he can't survive on the outside...
...con and former Washington Mayor Marion Barry is all but certain to run the District of Columbia again after drawing 47 percent of the vote in yesterday's Democratic mayoral primary. City councilman John Ray, the Establishment candidate, got 37 percent, and beleaguered Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly straggled in with a mere 13 percent. How did Barry do it? "It's clear that he won it by registering an unprecedented number of voters in southeast Washington, in the poorest neighborhoods," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. Many of this crowd had never voted before. Barry's return may intensify middle...
...only federally recognized Tlingit organization, the Klawock Cooperative Association, sent a letter disassociating itself from the case. Sociologists were up in arms. Says Sasha Hughes, author of two books on Native Alaskan heritage and a longtime James observer: "Banishment is not part of Tlingit culture. Rudy is a con man. He just makes it up as he goes along." Adds Aaron Isaacs of the Cooperative Association: "People want to know. Who's he representing...
...small, he would steal, sell drugs, set fires. He had been barred from local stores because of his thievery. The manager of the local Gallery corner market says, "He had a 11-year-old body, but he was 29 or 30 in the head. He was a slick con artist. They should have hung him in the middle of the street...