Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked about her great assist to Fink for the winning basket, Healey stated, "She was open, so I fed her the pass and just prayed--get it in Jod, just...
Which gets to perhaps the central fact about today's excess of gossip and celebrity journalism: it is contemptuous of readers and viewers. It says they are incapable of dealing with real news and that they must be fed Pablum and given the illusion that they are vicariously participating in important stuff. It is also about class: a nouveau celebrity class applauded less for achievement than for the mere acquisition of money or the act of becoming famous. I suspect that the pre-eminence of this type of gossip and celebrity journalism is not unrelated to the private frustrations...
...such a gradualist, spoon-fed approach to the number of Holocaust victims cannot enhance understanding of the human tragedy of the Holocaust. If the point is really to remember life, not numbers, why not remember all life? Eleven million will "click," just like six million, if it really stands for people, not Arabic numerals...
...more than 50 operations, "You cannot be at the mercy of your body any longer." In 1986 she allegedly advised Isaacson to take an overdose of cardiac medicines, which resulted in a coma. The next year Jenks allegedly emptied 29 Seconal capsules into a container of yogurt and spoon-fed her patient with the lethal mixture. At the last spoonful, Isaacson balked and decided she wanted to live. Jenks was able to induce vomiting, and Isaacson was saved. Later, Isaacson claims, Jenks persuaded her to take an overdose of cardiac drugs and morphine, which she managed to sleep off. Finally...
...most powerful financier since J.P. Morgan. But Milken's penchant for working by his own rules and controlling every situation proved to be his downfall. Drexel's huge profits and free-wheeling methods attracted the attention of federal prosecutors who believed that, among other offenses, Milken fed inside information to a network of traders to manipulate the stocks of his target companies. Prosecutors first snared Dennis Levine, a Drexel investment banker, who pleaded guilty in 1986 to four counts of profiting from insider trading. The Government then got Levine to implicate Ivan Boesky, a Wall Street speculator, who was fined...