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...first detected when a retired underwear seamstress in Croatia earned $2 million in profit from a suspicious, two-day investment in Reebok. The 63-year-old, who did not own a computer, was Pajcin's aunt; he traded stocks in her name and in the name of an exotic dancer he was dating to escape scrutiny. In one ploy to glean inside information, Pajcin and an accomplice, former Goldman colleague Eugene Plotkin, hired workers in the Wisconsin printing plant where BusinessWeek was published to filch copies of the magazine straight from the press to discover which companies would be mentioned...
...abstraction. He just sets the scene around them, presents some historical background and lets them tell their stories. A prison warden explains how he takes off two months every year to become (along with a waiter, a bus conductor and a man who collects coconut juice) a divinely possessed dancer. A Tibetan monk recalls how he found himself taking up arms against Chinese invaders. A temple dancer - or sacred prostitute, in effect - remembers how her father sold her off to a shepherd, when she was 14, for $15, a silk sari and a bag of millet. (See pictures of India...
...Carpenter, Kennedy's exploration of the kidnapping and killing of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, failed to achieve a similar result in the U.S., but it raised doubts about the culpability of Bruno Hauptmann, who was sent to the electric chair for the crime. The widower of ballet dancer and actress Moira Shearer, Kennedy was an atheist and advocate of voluntary euthanasia. But his passion was probing old cases. "I became committed to revealing hidden truths," he said, "and propelled, compelled, by a very heady feeling of excitement...
...money from commemorative projects like this. Michael Jackson will have no resurrection - in the end, that was that - but the movie does earn him a redemptive legacy. It proves that, at the end, he was still a thriller. Fans and doubters alike can look at the gentle, driven singer-dancer at the center of this up-close document and say admiringly, This...
...Definitely. One of the big ways acting has helped me in choreography is how I approach the dancers. I make them describe what they could be feeling. I think it is a very important process for a dancer because for the most part we do not use our voices on stage. I have also learned from my acting that stories are very important...