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...looked upon Father Geoghan as a prize." JOHN J. CONTE, district attorney in Worcester, Mass., on Joseph L. Druce, who is accused of killing convicted child molester and former priest John Geoghan...
...These are matters that do not need to be discussed in public in ways that embarrass or humiliate the government or the defense, and particularly the court." KENNETH HOYT, U.S. district judge, on why he closed several hearings on Enron executives to the media...
...Located in Tokyo's semiseedy entertainment district of Asakusa, the same streets that birthed Kitano's career, the Rokku-za strip theater has been XXX-rated since 1945, when its owners discovered what cable TV has since learned: even the dullest entertainment can be made palatable with toplessness. In the postwar years, the Rokku-za was a popular hangout for rebel intellectuals; now the club entertains sottish salarymen with nice Japanese girls and sultry Russians gyrating to pop ballads. This is, literally, Mama's house...
...Everybody's Talkin' (the theme to Hoffman's Midnight Cowboy), sneaks up behind Hoffman and whispers breathily, "Zees eez for yoo." It's their running joke. That's not to say there haven't been setbacks. In the late 1990s, the Costes bought a mansion in the Marais district that they were planning to turn into a five-star hotel with over 100 rooms; instead, they recently sold it to residential real-estate developer Cogedim, and won't say why the plan fizzled. But the exception just proves the rule. As Jean-Louis Costes puts it: "A famous politician told...
During the U.S. District Court trial—which started last week after almost a year of delay—prosecutors and witnesses graphically described how Byrne punched Trombly in the face with closed fists, held him by the throat with one hand while striking him with the other and threw him across the room into a bench. Trombly’s jaw was broken in the incident, forcing him to eat through a straw for two weeks...