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Speaking before the judge in a courtroom that overlooked Boston Harbor, Bloom said the government needed approval, perhaps from as far up as the U.S. attorney general, to pursue settlement negotiations with Shleifer...
...that was missing was a boiled bunny when CATHERINE ZETA-JONES testified in a Los Angeles courtroom last week in an apparent real-life case of fatal attraction. At a preliminary hearing, the Chicago star read aloud from letters sent by her alleged stalker, Dawnette Knight. One note promised "to slice her up like meat on a bone and feed her to the dogs." Another included a mock obituary for the Welsh actress, who is married to her Traffic castmate Michael Douglas. The letters left the actress "hysterical," her husband testified. Knight, says her lawyer, sent them because she harbored...
...just might become Vice President of the U.S. [July 19] But now is not the time. His "two Americas" speech you quoted was masterly and moving, but it reminded me that Edwards is a trial lawyer by profession, and his words sounded as if he was talking to a courtroom jury. Edwards gives the impression of a man continually in a hurry, someone restless and not willing to be grateful for what he has already achieved. He wants much more, and he won't rest until he gets it. He wants people to elect him on faith, not experience. Anyone...
...serve time in prison for conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators. It took 26 months and a bruising federal trial to break, if just for a moment, Stewart's stony resolve. She stood before Judge Miriam Cedarbaum last week in a lower-Manhattan courtroom, her voice faltering as she begged for leniency. "My hopes that my life will not be completely destroyed lie entirely in your competent and experienced and merciful hands," she said. Stewart asked the judge to consider her decades as an icon to women, the suffering she had already endured...
...judge must have been listening. Cedarbaum gave her the most lenient sentence possible under federal guidelines--five months in a minimum-security federal prison and five months of house arrest. Was Stewart surprised? "Not at all," she said defiantly as she left the courtroom. But Wall Street was impressed, sending the stock surging 37%, closing at $11.81, on news of the light sentence...