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...David Barrett. He was appointed to investigate Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros' misstatements to FBI agents about payments to a former lover. But it's the former lover, Linda Jones, who landed in jail, and the case against her was based on false statements made on a mortgage application. "The problem with the statute is that the prosecutors, with unlimited resources and unlimited time, become obsessed with bringing down the people they are mandated to pursue," says Espy lawyer Ted Wells...
...problem for Amy Elliott at Citibank was not so much what she did but whom she did it for--at least in the view of the Mexican authorities who have brought criminal charges against Raul Salinas. In addition to getting Salinas Broadway theater tickets and managing his portfolio, she employed sophisticated asset-concealment techniques on his behalf. These techniques are used quite legally by wealthy individuals--say, a surgeon who wants to secure her life savings from potential malpractice suits or an estranged husband. Elliott was helping Salinas conceal his large transfers out of the country ostensibly because...
Making Moses a brother to Rameses allowed the filmmakers to deal with another sticky problem: how to make Rameses II, considered the greatest of Pharaohs, more than a one-dimensional villain. In fact, Katzenberg says, the filmmakers returned from an early field trip to Egypt so impressed with the majesty of the pyramids that "we found ourselves not wanting to simply portray Rameses as the bad guy." Casting Rameses as a contemporary of Moses' enabled the filmmakers to show him as a loving adopted brother who wants to carry on the great legacy of his father...
Some doctors believe everyone should be tested for hemochromatosis. But that could be a problem, since the tests aren't foolproof. At the very least, anyone with a family member who has hemochromatosis should get tested. In addition, if you have arthritis, diabetes or cardiac arrhythmia, your doctor should make sure that the difficulty isn't actually a result of iron overload...
...develop hemochromatosis simply by taking iron supplements? No. As a general rule, taking an iron pill is a problem only for folks with a hereditary predisposition to hemochromatosis. However, it is possible to ingest too much iron no matter what your genetic background. An overdose of just a few dozen iron pills can make adults very sick and is enough to kill toddlers. So keep your supplements out of kids' reach. And if you suspect iron poisoning, call your local poison-control center or head for the emergency room...