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While Whittlesey, whom James had promised restitution for the partial deafness he has suffered, looked on from the audience, both boys apologized for their crime. But then, responding to leading questions by their elders, they ticked off a list of extenuating circumstances: they had been drunk; Roberts always carried a bat with him for fear of gangs; he had "heard a report that one of the Domino's Pizza deliverymen had a gun" and might be dangerous. The day's session ended with a statement by one of the elders that "it's a known fact that under the influence...
...Whatever might be happening out in the countryside, the trickle of Rwandans who reach Kigali enter a city of eerie quiet. Fewer than 100,000 of the 350,000 people who lived in the capital four months ago are there now. There is no electricity, no phone service, only partial water supply. Businesses and factories are shuttered...
...amendment to federal election laws allowed members of Congress who were elected before 1980 and left office before 1994 to convert unused campaign donations to personal use. All told, retiring lawmakers have received a $10.5 million windfall. A partial accounting...
...handiwork of Sergei Mavrodi, who is in his late 30s. Overweight and partial to expensive Italian suits, Mavrodi called himself an entrepreneur -- the label covers a lot of ground in Moscow these days -- and recently appeared in a newspaper survey as the sixth richest man in the country. He launched the MMM fund in 1992 with 100,000 rubles, worth about $50 today. Like all pyramid-type schemes, his snowballing effort worked well for a time. Shares priced in February at 1,600 rubles (the equivalent then of $1) traded at 105,000 rubles two weeks ago. Mavrodi apparently...
Mickey Kantor, the U.S. trade representative, indicated that the Administration may be willing to settle for a partial trade agreement with Japan instead of continuing to demand that Tokyo open five priority markets ranging from automobiles to insurance. American officials said a deal covering telecommunications, medical equipment and insurance could be ready for signing next month when representatives of the world's leading industrial countries gather at the Group of Seven summit in Naples, Italy...