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...call came at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11. I had been waiting for it for five years. When the call finally arrived, it was my wife Sarah who answered. What the person said on the other end of the phone was both simple and devastating: we were financially wiped...
...stuff of movies: a dead fish and a rose on a car windshield, a safe full of money and explosives, a room full of wiretapping equipment. The 2002 arrest of Anthony Pellicano, former private eye to the stars, kicked off one of Hollywood's most dramatic scandals. On Dec. 15, a federal judge sentenced Pellicano to fifteen years in prison after a May trial in which he was found guilty on 78 counts, including wiretapping and racketeering. He's been in jail since 2003 on federal explosives charges. Only in Hollywood, kids...
...miles outside the town of Jaén, olive trees cover the hills in neat lines. But this year's harvest, which started on Dec. 1, has brought another, more troubling, queue to town: the bread line. Each night, immigrants in search of once plentiful seasonal work find themselves forced to gather outside the city shelter to wait for a hot meal and, if they're lucky, a bed. "I've been working the olive harvest for the past six years," says Abdullah N., a Moroccan migrant who preferred not to give his last name. "But this year...
...This was a blatant act of discrimination, especially seeing the fact that this is a legal parade and the Hong Kong police have granted a permit," says Betty Grisoni, co-founder of a lesbian-rights organization called Les Peches, which helped organize the parade. A Citybus spokeswoman said on Dec. 11 that it would not discriminate against any party and that it was a commercial decision...
...Dec. 16, the state canvassing board will review each of the remaining several thousand confusing ballots with an overhead projector for the public, decide which count and declare a winner before Christmas, well before the U.S. Senate is seated on Jan. 6. The five-member board was chosen by Democratic secretary of state Ritchie, but both sides are satisfied with his appointments. To prepare himself, Ritchie not only watched HBO's movie about the Florida recount, but he watched it in a particularly Minnesotan way. "I was especially interested in the bonus features of the disc," he says. Meantime, reviewing...