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...author's bio is to be believed, he was a taxi driver, saloon keeper, bullfighter (really?) and, most notably and relevantly, a boxing trainer and cut man. Toole (a pseudonym) was also the author of the story collection Rope Burns, best known for the short story Million Dollar Baby, which became a movie of the same name. Rope Burns was Toole's literary debut...
...thieves. Next, the crooks needed to separate the money from the crime. In the old days, if you sold cocaine in Spain, you wound up with pesetas, which pointed to where the crime was committed. So you prewashed your loot into, say, German marks, and from there moved into dollars. You spun that money in and out of secret bank accounts (to obliterate the paper trail) and across borders, and eventually brought the money out the other end disguised as legitimate income. Done properly, it's next to impossible to tie your income to your crime. But these guys...
...CHAD LOWE and HILARY SWANK'S eight-year marriage ended, in part, because of a substance-abuse problem that Lowe has since kicked, Swank tells Vanity Fair in its August issue. "It was such a shock because I never thought he'd keep something from me," the Million Dollar Baby star said. And yet "it was a confirmation of something I was feeling that was keeping us from being completely solid." Lowe, a TV actor who is directing a film called Beautiful Ohio, had no comment. But at least--unlike in her 2000 Oscar speech--Swank thought to mention...
DIED. Jan Murray, 89, stand-up comedian and actor who went from performing variety-show routines at resorts in New York's Catskill Mountains to hosting popular 1950s TV game shows, including Blind Date, Dollar a Second and Treasure Hunt, on which winning contestants got to pick a treasure chest that could contain anything from a big-money check to cabbage; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A native New Yorker who came up in Borscht Belt comedy with Sid Caesar and Buddy Hackett, Murray turned to acting in the 1960s, appearing in films like Thunder Alley and TV shows that included...
...African interior. About 500,000 Africans receive the antiretroviral medications they seek, but 4.7 million still need them. Our current efforts are simply insufficient. It is not enough to share precious intellectual property rights. We need to be willing to aggressively counteract AIDS with all the ammunition our trillion-dollar pharmaceuticals can provide.Our world is one divided and sub-divided by arbitrary lines drawn in the sand. These lines make it easy for us to sleep at night, far from the Central Hospital, where patients rot in their own filth and the stale Saharan summer heat. Regardless, a simple truth...