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Everyone but Efron, that is. By now he's restless with being the pinup boy on Brownies' bedroom walls. He's turned down a remake of Footloose, the '80s high school musical, to free up time for more mature films. "I'm ready for new challenges," Efron told Cindy Pearlman of the Chicago Sun-Times. "I want to act and do serious roles." (He's already made an indie film, Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, in which he plays a struggling actor who's ... 17.) But how to make the transition? Does he carry the tweens into their...
...Chris Lee and Basu Ratnam to clinch the crucial doubles point (9-7).Down early, the Bears’ response was instantaneous, winning four of six opening sets in the singles matchups.Despite some uncharacteristic unforced errors in early baseline rallies, No. 1 Clayton defeated Brown’s Jonathan Pearlman in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4. At No. 2, the Bears’ Lee, a speedy counterpuncher with deceptive power, took the first set 6-0. However, Chijoff-Evans remained competitive and pulled out a close victory in a dramatic third set tiebreaker...
...named William Miller, who fleeced investors out of $1 million--more than $20 million in today's dollars--in 1899. The cons have since grown: a Florida church netted $500 million in a 1990s fraud that promised God would double the money of pious investors. Boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman, in addition to foisting 'N Sync on an unsuspecting public, stole $300 million from clients over two decades. And citizens poured some $1.2 billion into Albanian pyramid schemes after the fall of communism; when the schemes collapsed in 1997, investor outrage toppled the government. Still, Madoff's $50 billion scam...
This ignominious group has had some high-profile recent entrants, including Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, who was charged in October with operating a $60 million Ponzi fraud, and former boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman, who in addition to foisting N'Sync on an unsuspecting public also stole $300 million in investor capital over two decades. Earlier this month, Minnesota businessman Tom Petters was indicted by a federal grand jury on 20 counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering stemming from his alleged role in a 13-year, $3.5 billion Ponzi ring. Still, the $50 billion fraud Madoff allegedly perpetrated...
...launch of a satellite by the Russians gave tremendous impetus for the Americans to push even harder with their space program,” Pearlman said...