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...assume the best. Yes, corporate America tripped up here and there, but the subsequent hysteria was stirred up by the overheated media. He didn't want to overreact lest he hamstring honest executives. "He didn't want to do something that would hurt the real economy just to fix a perception problem," says a senior adviser...
...from $107 billion in the 12 months that ended March 31, Harvard's Joint Center reports. Some of the money came from stocks. But most was borrowed against homeowners' record $6.7 trillion of equity. Home has never been sweeter. "It's good to invest in your house, to fix it up," says Patricia Chavez, 40, who lives with her husband and three children in Moreno Valley, Calif. The Chavezes just borrowed $20,000 against the house, partly to pay off high-interest credit cards. "The price of homes going up has truly benefited us. Otherwise, we'd be drowning...
...ARRESTED. ALIMZHAN TOKHTAKHOUNOV, 53, Uzbekistan-born, high-profile Russian mobster who was suspected of rigging several beauty contests in Moscow during the early 1990s; for conspiring to fix skating matches in the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics; in Forte dei Marmi, Italy. Tokhtakhounov is accused of manipulating results in the ice dancing and pairs skating events so that gold medals would be awarded to the French and the Russian teams, respectively. If convicted he faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. SENTENCED. FIKRET (BABO) ABDIC, 63, once considered to be the richest...
...Authorities believe Tokhtakhounov may have arranged the fix in favor of the French ice dancing pair in exchange for a visa to return to France. Russian officials call the charges of mafia involvement "fantastic," telling the Associated Press they wouldn't be surprised if the scenario had been manufactured "in Hollywood" to retroactively justify giving two gold medals in the pairs event. Meanwhile, Italian investigators say they nabbed Tokhtakhounov during an organized-crime investigation; they happened to have tapped his phone in February and recorded several conversations with a French man, during which Tokhtakhounov made repeated references to the figure...
...just after Warhol's death in 1987 when his older brother John visited Medzilaborce. With his help, the museum opened in 1991 and survived initial protests - 1,700 signed a petition against it - and a fair share of financing and operating problems: it took the town nine years to fix the museum's leaky roof that at times would flood the exhibition halls...