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...year-old Stephen Simmons of Holbrook, N.Y., a convicted pederast whom Manzie had met over the Internet. Since late August, though, Manzie, with the consent of his parents, had been assisting New Jersey prosecutors in an effort to build a criminal case against Simmons for sexual abuse. Manzie kept up phone contact with Simmons so their conversations could be taped. Three weekends ago, however, the boy took a hammer to the recording device police had installed in his family's home, destroyed tapes and announced that he would no longer comply with the investigation. On Sept. 24, Manzie's parents...
...Carey campaign consultant, Martin Davis, approached a top Democratic fund raiser, Laura Hartigan, with the plan for the lopsided contribution swap. Hartigan, in turn, pressed Sullivan to find a big donor for the Carey campaign to carry out the D.N.C.'s part of the bargain. The Teamsters, meanwhile, kept their word, sending an initial $236,000 to Democratic parties in 35 states at the end of the month, according to court papers...
...China. But the Maoist bureaucrats must have noticed that he had his fingers crossed; they opposed his efforts to film in several nearby Himalayan nations. He set his location sites on India, but the government there dawdled endlessly. "I could see something was terribly wrong," he says. "They kept telling us we'd get permission, yet nothing was happening...
...data--from E-mail to video clips--that Sidgmore sees as the key to growth in the telecommunications industry. Sidgmore and Ebbers spotted their chance last summer when a rift developed between MCI and BT over the price of their carefully negotiated merger because MCI's share price kept falling. Opportunity knocked the moment BT demanded a $5 billion discount off the price it had agreed to pay for MCI, which said in July that it would lose $800 million trying to break into the local-phone market in 1997 and could have even larger losses next year...
...against the Jews, arguing that their religion exempted them from keeping legal promises. But Kol Nidre only annuls vows taken between man and God, not vows involving others. Today, Kol Nidre forces us each year to confront our weaknesses, to remember all of the private promises made and not kept and to remember the power of words to destroy us and restore...