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...scandals. Under federal sentencing guidelines, he faces up to 85 years in prison, and even if he receives about 20 years, as some legal analysts predict, when he's scheduled to be sentenced in June, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. That's a bad omen for four other prominent execs facing criminal charges: Richard Scrushy, the former chief of HealthSouth being tried for fraud in Alabama; the top two Enron guys, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, scheduled for trials next year; and Dennis Kozlowski, accused of looting Tyco and being retried following a mistrial last...
...brisk round of doubles play provided a good omen for the remainder of the match, with the Crimson sweeping the three encounters. The teams of Durkin and Anderson and Wang and Mukundan clinched the point with wins at the No. 2 and 3 slots, 8-2 and 8-1 respectively...
Written by David Seltzer (who also wrote the Ur-Apocalyptic flick The Omen), the show has some of the religious intrigue of The Da Vinci Code and some of the grim phantasmagoria of The Passion of the Christ--two successes NBC would clearly like to have rub off on it. "In the tumultuous times we live in," says NBC entertainment president Kevin Reilly, who green-lighted both Medium and Revelations, "Apocalyptic theory and big existential questions tend to be on the rise...
...news. The country's generals have been known to view natural events in a highly superstitious light: the discovery of a huge ruby or block of jade or a white elephant is invariably trumpeted as a validation of their rule, while a major earthquake could be seen as an omen of impending regime change. Whatever the tsunami's heavenly consequences for their rulers, however, ordinary Burmese have every reason to feel lucky...
...Yale offense, such an omen came the first week of the season against Dayton. Leading 24-17 and marching down the field in the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs were primed to score again and salt away their first win of the season...