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Pring-Wilson, who has spent the last eight months in state prison, is now free as he awaits a new trial on manslaughter charges, which stem from an April 2003 fight outside a Cambridge pizza parlor that left Michael D. Colono dead...
...blacks and whites alike, the most troubling event took place two days before Christmas, as holiday shoppers crowded the gaily decorated arcades of the Sanlam shopping center in Amanzimtoti, 18 miles south of Durban. Outside an ice-cream parlor, a crowd of parents and children had gathered around a festive display featuring Santa Claus when a bomb hidden in a nearby garbage bin exploded. Within seconds, the scene of holiday merriment was transformed into grim mayhem. Five whites, among them a two-year-old child, were killed. In all, 61 people, including several blacks, were injured...
...fairly splashy declaration of noncandidacy. For two days before the event, Hart welcomed reporters to his newly acquired 150-acre mountain retreat on Troublesome Gulch Road, an unpaved trail half an hour west of Denver. Sprawled in an easy chair beside a crackling fire in the parlor of what was once a log cabin (it has been embellished by stone additions), Hart discoursed to TIME on the national campaign he was not exactly starting yet, while his wife Lee served coffee and cookies to TV crews in the kitchen. To some 250 supporters gathered at the nearby El Rancho Restaurant...
...hell-with-you hullabaloo is Judge Marie Lambert, a seasoned New York City politician who runs her surrogate's courtroom with a singular feistiness. "Will someone turn the lights on back there?" she hollered one morning last week after taking the bench. "This place looks like a funeral parlor." A joke about funeral parlors during the biggest inheritance case in state history? It may be that for Lambert, a self-proclaimed defender of widows and orphans, this case arraying one against the other is a test of her emotional fortitude. She had frequent run-ins last week with attorneys...
...Oddly, Wynn isn't very interested in gambling. His bingo-parlor-owner father, to whom Steve was reportedly close, was a compulsive gambler. On the eve of his father's cancer surgery, as an English major at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve sat at his father's bed, tallying more than $200,000 in the elder Wynn's outstanding debt. Steve made his first major foray into Vegas in 1972, buying an interest in the Golden Nugget, a seedy downtown casino. He overhauled the place, then built a new Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, New Jersey, (with financing from junk...