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...that Keating is setting himself up in business anytime soon. Last month the former high-flying financier was convicted in a California court of securities fraud connected with the failure of Lincoln Savings & Loan, an A.C.C. subsidiary. Federal criminal charges followed, and when Keating claimed negative net worth, the judge reduced his $2 million bail to $300,000. The Feds have amassed a 77-count indictment that accuses Keating, and four others, of defrauding Lincoln of $250 million. Keating maintains his innocence on the charges. Oh, and the missing property has been returned to A.C.C...
Many scientists rely on elaborately complex and costly equipment to probe the mysteries confronting humankind. Not Melissa Hines. The UCLA behavioral scientist is hoping to solve one of life's oldest riddles with a toybox full of police cars, Lincoln Logs and Barbie dolls. For the past two years, Hines and her colleagues have tried to determine the origins of gender differences by capturing on videotape the squeals of delight, furrows of concentration and myriad decisions that children from 2 1/2 to 8 make while playing. Although both sexes play with all the toys available in Hines' laboratory, her work...
...rubouts, which Hynes likens to a "B movie," began with Henry Smurra, a middle-aged Colombo soldier who was shot in the head on the night of Nov. 24 while sitting in his red Lincoln Continental outside a Dunkin' Donuts shop. One Colombo associate, Vincent Fusaro, received season's greetings in the form of a bullet to his head as he hung a Christmas garland on the door of his Brooklyn home. Another wiseguy, a 79-year-old bookie, was blown away in broad daylight while playing cards at a social club; his 47-year-old girlfriend managed to walk...
Take the recent joint appearance of Brown and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin at a breakfast for 1,500 liberal Democratic farmers and senior citizens in Moline, Ill. Harkin rolled up his working-class sleeves, quoted from the Old Testament and Abe Lincoln, and with drawling, oratorically expert highs and lows, hammered away at the Bush Administration on bread-and-butter issues...
...fill 4,000 seats at 210 performances a season. And for the most part, its forays into premieres have been failures. Met veterans still wince at the memory of the disastrous premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, written to inaugurate the company's new quarters at Lincoln Center...