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CONVICTED. DENNIS KOZLOWSKI, 58, former CEO of Tyco International, and MARK SWARTZ, 44, the company's longtime chief financial officer; of stealing more than $500 million in cash and stock sales from the global manufacturing behemoth they built; after a four-month second trial (the first was declared a mistrial last year); in New York City. The jury found both men guilty of charges that include grand larceny, securities fraud and falsifying business records. Each faces up to 30 years in prison...
...swingin' '60s, the Me decade '70s. Five years into the 21st century, we're in trouble. The current decade doesn't even have a nickname (the zeros? the aughts? the uh-ohs?), let alone a cultural personality. And Hollywood isn't helping. The film industry, especially in the four-month peak-viewing period called summer, rarely tries squarely addressing Zeitgeist anxieties. Instead it ransacks its attic for sequels, spin-offs and, this year, remakes. You don't look forward to many of the new season's blockbuster hopefuls. You look backward...
...Number of Cambodians facing food shortages following a four-month drought. More than 150,000 of them are now receiving rations from the United Nations World Food Programme...
...skill of the two law teams. Mesereau has paraded his courtroom savvy in cross-examining the accuser's brother and sister, who were forced into contradictions. Sneddon took heat from observers for unloading his heavy artillery in the second week of what is expected to be a four-month siege, with hundreds of witnesses. The suspicion is that the D.A., who has been itching to nail Jackson since an aborted 1993 molestation trial, just couldn't wait to see the star squirm...
Weiss, however, thinks the disparity between the team’s paltry record and its ultimate ranking and success is more indicative of the way the coaches and wrestlers approach the four-month season...