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...speeches by Kallman and Lisa DeSisto, vice president and general manager of Boston.com, highlighted alternatives to the world of finance and banking promoted by the recruiters beforehand...
...Fundamentally, it's the plan that is the least disruptive to our customers," said Thomas DeSisto, NYNEX managing director of the regulatory planning...
...DeSisto said the overlay system is a "long-term solution to the whole issue of telephone numbers and rapid growth that we see now and that we have seen over the past five to 10 years...
...DeSisto, in contrast, was earnest and amiable, beginning his summation with a windy anecdote about Abraham Lincoln. Instead of reviewing his case, he painted an emotional and highly colored tableau of the alleged murder attempts. With his hands resting on the front of the jury box, DeSisto pleaded with the jurors to try to relive the crime, to put themselves in the room where Sunny von Bulow went into her two comas. As if holding a syringe in his hand, DeSisto asked, "Can you see it? As he was pushing the plunger down, can you see it? The defendant then...
...DeSisto's showmanship was one of the few tactics left to him. Earlier in the week, a businesslike Judge Corinne Grande rejected all but one of the prosecution's rebuttal witnesses and dashed the state's last hope that it could offer testimony about the $14 million that Von Bulow stood to inherit upon his wife's death. Her rulings spurred accusations of partiality from Claus' stepchildren. Said Alexander von Auersperg: "We can't understand why $14 million isn't considered a motive to murder someone, especially when Mr. Von Bulow doesn't have any money...