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...HEAR U.S. PROSECUTORS TELL IT, the stunts that Japan's Daiwa Bank used to conceal the nefarious conduct of its Manhattan office might have come from The Sting. The end result, however, was more akin to the farcical Dumb and Dumber. Among the flagrant ruses employed by Daiwa, prosecutors said, was disguising a downtown trading floor as a nondescript storage room during audits by Federal Reserve regulators. But no sooner had the Feds left than the traders reappeared--led by Toshihide Iguchi. It was his dual role as chief bond trader and bookkeeper that ultimately brought the bank to grief...
That arrangement was disrupted when he was 14 and two men from the project staged a shoot-out in front of the bedroom Marshall shared with his mother. Fascinated, "like any dumb kid would be," says Marshall, he dashed outside to see the action and narrowly escaped a bullet. His mother, Marshall recalls, was "very, very upset. It was the idea she couldn't keep us safe." For the next two years, Marshall lived with his grandfather, a proud, hardworking janitor for 40 years, who, Marshall says, "taught me more about being a man than any other man I have...
...lawyers to revel in his celebrity; Christopher Darden and Johnnie Cochran fuming privately over their public spats; the juror who talked about the flaws in the prosecution's case and the sacrifices she and her colleagues made during the nine-month ordeal; the police officers, including a duo nicknamed "Dumb and Dumber," who fell short in their jobs. Here are the tales that help illuminate the trial that transfixed a nation...
...perhaps the biggest in his career. He and his partner Tom Lange were popular, old-time cops who worked hard and enjoyed a drink or two, spending nights at the Central Cafe in a grimy section of downtown. But Lange and Vannatter were also known as "Mutts" or "Dumb and Dumber"--by the D.A.s who had to work around their sloppiness in court. By the luck of the duty roster, Lange and Vannatter were called to the crime scene shortly after midnight on June 13. Some homicide investigators are so meticulous that they record their arrival at a crime scene...
Nothing is less funny these days than the state of movie comedy. The Hollywood farces dominating the world's screens are sad affairs populated by TV stars playing dumb. The notion of laughter as a worldwide language is dormant, presumed dead. So what's a viewer...