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Congress is going to fix our financial system if it takes forever. After a month of asking Enron executives what they knew and when they knew it - and getting more Fifth Amendment pleas than answers - Enron-obsessed lawmakers, particularly Democrats, are massing this week for an entire Enron-based 2002...
Despite the pleas for leniency, Fasano said Lasaga could not go unpunished. The judge reminded the professors that there was a victim.
Not everyone is buying the pleas of poverty, however. "The way you browbeat people into taking less money is to convince them there isn't any," says Fred Halstrom, a Boston lawyer representing a plaintiff in a sex-abuse suit there. "But the Catholic Church worldwide has immense assets." The...
The scene featuring the two Winthrop House seniors indicted for larceny was truly theatre of the absurd, familiar to me only in that it was vaguely reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson trial. The same mud-brown paneling, uptight officers, grim-faced suits. It was a moment of such epic soap...
Wednesday, a federal judge ordered the "American Taliban" held without bond, citing Lindh's extreme flight risk. Despite pleas from his parents to release their son, the 20-year-old will remain in federal custody until his trial later this year. "It may be argued by the defense that the...