Word: cons
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...billion over the past decade, a scam in which he got them to plow money into lucrative, securitized lawsuit settlements that usually turned out to be nonexistent. The alleged crime wasn't as massive as New York City financier Bernard Madoff's recent $50 billion Ponzi con, but the Mini-Madoff scheme has slapped the Sunshine State, already reeling from myriad corruption scandals of late, with one of its darkest stains in decades. "So many frauds have been committed here recently," says William Scherer, a Fort Lauderdale attorney representing some of Rothstein's alleged victims. "But Scott's audacity...
...pointless," and adds the philosophical, "Life's a bitch, and then you don't die." (Salon's film critic, Stephanie Zacharek, has a better version - "Life sucks, and then you don't die" - but unfortunately that line isn't in the movie.) (Read "Twilight and True Blood at Comic Con...
...anything, experience may be a liability. Huckabee was considered a front runner for the GOP nomination in 2012, until an ex-con he pardoned while governor of Arkansas murdered four police officers in Washington State. Polls since then show Huckabee still runs strong, but if he has a political future, it may be in spite of his governing record, not because...
...question to ask about a playwright who is so constantly with us. No fewer than three of his plays--American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow and Oleanna--have been revived on Broadway in just the past year or so. His terse, fragmented, elliptical dialogue; his rogue's gallery of hustlers, con men and losers; his twisty, shaggy-dog plots; his cynical take on the American dream--Mamet's style and themes have seeped into nearly every pore of American theater. (Non-American theater too: Martin McDonagh, whose Irish black comedies are clear descendants of Mamet's work, has called American Buffalo...