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...hashing out a plea to be finalized Thursday morning. Yet when morning arrived, Luna was not in court. Soon the whole nation knew why. Four hours earlier, 90 miles north in a part of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County more familiar with Amish horses and buggies than homicide, a silver Honda Accord had been found idling but empty, its nose dipped in a small creek. Yards away was a body. The victim, federal law-enforcement sources say, had been severely beaten and stabbed 36 times. That, however, did not kill him. He apparently drowned. The corpse was Jonathan Luna...
...crime scene was equally perplexing. The Honda was strewn with money. Luna's ID was found on his body. His 36 stab wounds appeared to have been caused by a penknife-size instrument. Said a puzzled veteran federal investigator: "A professional rubout, they'd put one in the back of your head and dump you in the harbor. There's something else going on here...
...priced at $4,899, has a throaty 200-cc engine, sleek design, and storage space for two riders. Piaggio figures it can grab a 25% share of the U.S. market and plans to introduce more models next year to compete with the likes of Yamaha's Vino and Honda's Silver Wing. Says Costantino Sambuy, president and CEO of Piaggio USA: "This is how we're getting the ball rolling...
Will such moves be enough to lure back customers like Jetta owner Ann Jones? A few weeks ago, she became fed up with her car and traded it in for a new Honda Accord. It's a testament to VW that she did so grudgingly. "I will miss the Volkswagen style, and I was saddened to leave my Jetta," she says. But her Accord provides her with something her Jetta never did: "I have more peace of mind." --With reporting by Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit and Steve Zwick/Frankfurt
...That’s like asking whether I would prefer a Rolls-Royce or a Honda,” Sangay said. “Tibet has sustained itself on its own for the last 2,000 years. Tibetans in exile have been extremely successful...