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...GUILTY PLEA ENTERED. By NICHOLAS LEESON, 28, former futures trader whose billion dollar losses brought down Barings investment bank; to fraud and forgery with the intention to commit fraud; in Singapore. The sentence: 6 1/2 years in prison: a Singaporean prison...
...1980s were frighteningly careless. Things were so bad, in fact, that federal agents raided the facility in 1989 and eventually shut it down. A grand jury later voted to indict plant operator Rockwell International for violating environmental laws. (Federal prosecutors and Rockwell agreed in the end to a plea bargain: the most serious charges were dropped, and the company paid an $18.5 million fine...
...Federal Government, reasserting America's place in the world and reconnecting the government to America's values," he drones. There's more, of course, and on this day Dole serves three crowd-pleasing doses of conservative dogma: a riff on making English the nation's official language, a plea to end late-term abortions, and Dole's favorite promise. "If I'm President," he says, "American troops will never serve under the command of [United Nations Secretary-General] Boutros Boutros-Ghali"--stringing out the two Boutroses to ensure the most pejorative pronunciation...
...politics in the Danish court. David Bottorf as Polonius is anything but a doddering old fool -- he's an overbearing and controlling father and courtier. When Polonius sells the king and queen he knows the cause of Hamlet's lunacy, it's more a command to listen than a plea for audience...
...money and political support in order to create a viable democracy for the Palestinians. If the duly elected government of Israel can allocate millions of dollars to Arafat for this purpose, then the least we can do at Harvard is grant him a podium from which to make his plea for help and ignore the ravings of obstructionists such as Danilewitz and Nelson. --Martin Lebwohl '96 Matthew Mayers...