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...Dallas. For roughly $8,000 each, hunters could stand in a fenced field where mountain lions, grizzly bears and other beasts were prodded out of cages into their gunsights. State and federal agents raided the multimillion-dollar operation and arrested Bartholomew. His trial ended last week in a plea bargain; he will spend six months in jail, do 400 hours of community service and forfeit his "preserve" to the state. County district attorney Theresa McGehee says, "I think we've made our statement: we as a society are not going to tolerate this...
...family, Bob is the one thing Leo is not. He is available. For stupid fun. For off-the-wall counseling. For generally shaking things up. Murray, with his curious blend of pathos and aggressiveness, is terrific, and so is an acutely uptight Dreyfuss, never once copping a plea for our sympathy. At the end What About Bob? skids into silliness, but not before Frank Oz proves that he's a director with just the mean sense of humor these bland times desperately need...
Working conditions are not ideal. The U.N.'s relief operations in Iraq are drastically underfunded; a plea to members for $578 million in start-up money for the region produced only $105 million. The organization must operate in a country that has been bombed back to a "preindustrial age," as a U.N. report described the situation. And the world body is caught between the conflicting demands of the allies and Iraq. "We're overwhelmed," says Staffan Bodemar, the chief of mission in Baghdad for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
Johnson, now 69, sued the IRS in 1983, claiming that the agency had destroyed his career. Two years earlier, a federal prosecutor had promised not to disclose a plea bargain in which Johnson settled a $6,000 tax-evasion case. Instead the IRS trumpeted details of the case in a press release. After that Johnson was pushed out of his job as executive vice president of the American National Insurance Co., based in Galveston, Texas. The sweetest part of the award is that some of Johnson's cash from the IRS will be tax free...
When Colombian police began cracking down on the narcotics trade, traffickers coined a defiant slogan: "Better a tomb in Colombia than a cell in the United States." Now that drug kingpins can avoid extradition under a new plea- bargaining agreement, a cell in Colombia has become a very attractive compromise. Since Medellin drug-cartel leaders Jorge, Fabio and Juan David Ochoa surrendered to Colombian authorities in recent months, they have been housed in a custom-tailored facility. Angry U.S. drug-enforcement officials complain that the Ochoa brothers are enjoying posh accommodations equipped with fancy furniture, stereos and cable television...