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Construction of the cable system has already started in North Cambridge after American Cablesystems was able to obtain a waiver from the state enabling it to begin construction before the signing of a final agreement...
Prosecutors argued that the exchange had been taped not to obtain evidence in the theft case but to investigate Moulton's alleged threat to kill a government witness. The evidence was therefore legally gathered, they contended, and should be admissible even in his auto-theft trial. But Brennan's majority opinion declared that Moulton had been led into making statements to a police agent without the presence of his lawyer. So those statements could not be used to convict him of any crime with which he was already charged, although they could serve as evidence to convict him of other...
Along with seven associates, including his brother, Edwards is charged in connection with a scheme to obtain state "certificates of need" for hospitals and nursing homes during the interregnum between his second and third terms and then sell them to legitimate corporations for millions of dollars. The case has become less a dispute over facts than a collision of political cultures. Edwards freely allows that he reaped nearly $2 million from the deals for maybe half an hour's work. He was unable to cite anything palpable that he had done to earn the money, saying only that...
Hotelier Ashkenazy recalls that in the late '60s, prime commercial real estate sold for $12 per sq. ft. in Beverly Hills and for $4 just across the street in West Hollywood, where developers also found it easier to obtain planning and zoning approvals. "Wealthy people live in Beverly Hills, but West Hollywood is where they come to eat and drink, to listen to music, to furnish their homes," says Ashkenazy, himself a multimillionaire and Beverly Hills resident...
Although he usually writes about Mexico, Fuentes needs to get away from his country to obtain the perspective which allows him to write. "This has to do with the fact that I grew up outside of Mexico," he says. "I am used to looking at the country from the outside." Fuentes feels that living in Mexico is something "very complicated and baroque." "I think there is a conspiracy in Mexico," he adds jokingly, "to prevent us from understanding what is going on due to the baroque and sometimes surrealist abundance of the elements around...