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...more than $75 million and Bad Boy of about $35 million. "Rather than buy companies and pay multiples," says Davis, "we started from scratch and made a relatively modest investment. We split profits immediately as opposed to paying off hundreds of millions in acquisition costs." Says industry analyst Michael Nathanson: "The low-debt producer-artist model works well, provided you have an ear for talent...
ARRESTED. LAWRENCE MICHAEL LOMBARDI, 41, unemployed white father of two, suspected in two recent bombings at the predominantly black Florida A&M University; on a bomb-manufacturing charge; in Tallahassee...
...were charmed by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes but wished at times that the author would have got out of the way of his own beguiling style, try All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Beacon Press; 288 pages; $24), Michael Patrick MacDonald's guileless and powerful memoir of precarious life and early death in Boston's Irish ghetto...
...Michael Fortier may have been a good citizen after the Oklahoma bombing, but he was still a villain beforethe crime ?- and what a crime it was. That was apparently what weighed on U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Van Bebber?s mind as he refused to abate ?- despite an appellate court?s clear wishes that he do so ?- the 12-year sentence he had given Fortier a year ago. Ordered by the appeals court to use new, lowered sentencing guidelines (involuntary manslaughter instead of first-degree murder), Bebber stuck by his guns. TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen...
...Fortier lawyer Michael McGuire argued to no avail that the four years his client has already served was enough ?- that Fortier was "cast aside conveniently" by the government after helping to bring Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to justice after the carnage. "This man was the difference in both of those cases, your honor," said McGuire. "This man has given a lot. I don't know if he'll be credited for it. He should be given credit." For Bebber, a reduction from 171 1/2 years to 12 was more than enough "credit" for a man who pleaded guilty...