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...Swiss jail awaiting extradition and the baron was hauled away by French detectives. The pair was charged with possession of stolen goods; the goods being some of $5 million worth of jewelry taken from the Hotel Ritz last October, including a white-blue 44-carat diamond ring worth $2.5 million, a 6.65-carat pendant, a diamond-studded gold necklace, earrings and a gold watch...
...meeting was arranged in the vault of the Swiss Bank Corp. in Geneva. The insurance company's representatives at the encounter were actually undercover Swiss and French police. Who should arrive bearing stolen ring and pendant but the Baroness Stephania von Kories zu Goetzen. She was accompanied by two young men. Under questioning, the trio fingered the baron as the instigator of their "transaction...
...broken English, parodied an Asian-American student who, after being denied admission, sued the school for discrimination. The article appeared in the paper’s annual prank edition.The column began, “Hi Princeton! Remember me? I so good at math and science. Perfect 2400 SAT score. Ring bells?”The writers, some of whom were Asian, said that their intent was not to insult Asians, but rather to mock the very stereotypes racism employs.But many on campus found the article offensive and 629 students have joined the Facebook group “Dear Daily Prince...
...finals. Then he played the No. 3 guy at Yale and lost 7-6 in the third set,” Fish said. “It was a good tournament for him—probably a little hard on him not to get the brass ring at the end,” he said.Clayton had a little more success at Columbia, going 1-1 in singles competition. He beat Phillip Stephens from Fairleigh Dickinson, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, before losing a hard-fought three set battle to Columbia’s Mark Clemente...
...given the gate soon after their wives receive permanent status. Another marriage fraud involves an alien who pays a U.S. citizen to marry him or her to circumvent INS rules. The foreigner then arranges a quick divorce. In August the INS deported the head of a West Coast ring that had arranged an estimated 70 marriages, for $3,000 to $5,000 a wedding...