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Horowitz also knows the quieter side of Burns. "My parents died 10 years ago," she says, "and afterward I really fell apart. Of all my family and friends, she was the one who hung in there." In fact Burns has had a couple of setbacks in life, both impossible to conceal, and handled them with admirable determination and reserve. In high school her face was badly cut in a car crash, and it took several operations to repair the damage. Years later, just before she was to be married to a man well known in the cosmetics business, his company...
During 15 days of deliberation, the jury had leaned toward acquittal on seven of the eight counts against Buckey. It was split evenly on the last one. "We got more hung ((rather)) than less hung," said jury foreman Richard Dunham. Most of the jurors said they believed some of the children had been molested, but from the evidence presented they could not tell who had done it. "There were too many gaping holes, and too much time had passed," said juror Michael Carapella. Jurors also expressed doubts about videotaped interviews used as evidence in which therapists and social workers encouraged...
...folks at Radio Sofia Bulgaria were into seasonal gifts. They sent me gushy cards on almost every occassion and each spring sent me a pair of red and white good luck tassles. Every year, a pair of tassles. I hung them on a pushpin in my wall until too many had accumulated. Then I began keeping one in my wallet for good luck...
...ghost of the congressional Iran-contra hearings has long hung over the cases of key figures in the scandal. Last week the ghost was haunting the prosecutors of Oliver North. A three-member appeals court in Washington overturned one of North's three convictions. The court sent the other two back % to federal Judge Gerhard Gesell for him to determine whether North's testimony at congressional inquiries into the scandal had in effect been used against him by the grand jury that indicted him, by the staff of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh or by any of the prosecution...
...1980s were a time of feast and fear for the world's international banking system: an era of globalization and vigorous overseas expansion but also of sharp competitive thrust. Asian banks and increasing numbers of European ones hung OPEN FOR BUSINESS signs abroad, joining the U.S. multinationals that had dominated global finance for decades. Suddenly the Japanese, drawing on their huge national savings pool and enormous trading surpluses, appeared to be the new Masters of the Banking Universe, carving out richer slices of international market share with startling rapidity. The global banking business became an international free...