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Just when corporate raider Paul Bilzerian seems to have hit rock bottom, his fall from grace goes even farther. Last month Bilzerian, 39, was convicted by a Manhattan jury on nine counts of securities fraud, which carry a potential 45-year prison sentence and $2.25 million in fines. Then last week the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit accusing him of illegal stock transactions involving seven companies, including his 1988 takeover of Singer. The charges range from lying to the SEC about how he financed his raids to trying to hide the number of shares he owned...
...young Eritrean from northern Ethiopia, William Ahmed was arrested in 1984 on suspicion of harboring guerrillas from the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and was packed off to a prison in Addis Ababa. Tortured repeatedly over the next four years, Ahmed was finally moved to a hospital. From there, he escaped to Djibouti, where he purchased a Somalian passport and a ticket to Canada...
Though eight members of the Ku Klux Klan served prison sentences on federal charges of conspiring to deny the civil rights of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, no state charges were ever filed against the killers of the three civil rights workers, who were slain near Philadelphia, Miss., during the Freedom Summer of 1964. That may now change. Two weeks ago, Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore announced that he is considering reopening the case...
...able to obtain the chemistry answer sheet in 15 minutes by placing two telephone calls. This was not the first case of exam scam. A former yeshiva student was recently arrested for selling copies of tests last year. If convicted, he could be sentenced to twelve years in prison...
Neil Perry, the frustrated actor whose father says gruffly, "You look like it's a prison term," as he tells Neil that he will leave Helton, go to military school, then to Harvard and to medical school, is the leader of the new Dead Poet's Society and the strongest character in the movie. In his talent, naivete and inability to move outside of his father's demands lies the film's tragedy...