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...million loan from New Jersey Teamsters Local 701 to a shady West Coast businessman. To reduce his imminent prison sentence, Friedland agreed to act as a federal informant. Meanwhile, he apparently headed a plan to defraud Local 701's pension fund of 520 million. In Friedland's hometown, few who knew the wheeler-dealer raised an eyebrow at his scuba scam. "We're from Jersey City," Lawyer Jack Russell told the New York Daily News. "We understand those kind of things...
...necessarily get at the emotional wellsprings of teenage pregnancy: the sense of hopelessness and resignation felt by many underprivileged girls. In Milwaukee, Janice Anderson, a successful black businesswoman, is trying to do something about it. Anderson, 36, was inspired to act last March when she read that her hometown led the country in birthrates among black teenagers. "I sat up in bed at 2 a.m. and wrote down the name of every black professional woman I knew," she recalls. "I came up with a list of 42 names and wrote to each one, asking them to come help their sisters...
Some time during the Truman Administration, the yearning to see her old hometown before she dies overcomes a widow lady named Carrie Watts (Geraldine Page). It is understandable: she lives with her dispirited son (John Heard) and his bossy wife (Carlin Glynn) in a cramped city apartment. The arrangement is getting on everyone's nerves...
...hope to see Halley's comet the second time around. In 1910 our high school math teacher in my hometown, Nuremberg, Germany, took us to the medieval imperial castle, which overlooks the old city, and here we watched with awe the celestial phenomenon, never to be forgotten. Alfred J. Hopf Madison...
...mandatory title defense "is perfectly illegal," said Kasparov in an interview in Le Figaro, "and I don't have to submit to Campomanes' dictatorship." Since capturing the world championship from Karpov in November, the feisty, flamboyant Kasparov has taken some time off to enjoy the beaches near his hometown of Baku in Azerbaijan. But last week's challenge to Campomanes, announced in Amsterdam, where Kasparov had played a match, looked like the beginning of a war of nerves, this time with the entire chess establishment...