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Like a latter-day Fagin, east Londoner Ali Lwanga was always careful to keep a distance from his crimes. For a series of cashbox heists across the capital, Lwanga hired and coached children, some as young as 14, to rush the security guards, grab the box and make their getaway, while he watched from a little way off. His haul was $200,000 in just a few months, and Lwanga thought his only problem was laundering the cash. In fact, the police were already on to him; they just couldn't prove it. Until, that is, he was picked...
Obama no longer has the luxury of waiting. In the past two weeks alone, General Motors announced it has only three months of cash left before it will run out of money, and the Federal Government was forced to rush to halt a shareholder run on the giant banking conglomerate Citigroup. Unemployment has risen to 6.5% and is expected to hit 8% by next year, if not higher. Some economists predict that gross domestic product will shrink at a 5% annual pace in the fourth quarter and perhaps 3% or 4% in the first three months of next year...
...will direct billions toward the health-care sector immediately. Some will go to a massive tech upgrade for an industry that in many ways is still paper-based. More urgent is the need to funnel cash directly from Washington to states so that local legislators don't rush to cut spending on Medicaid as state tax receipts dry up in the recession. "Absent some relief there, you'll get Medicaid budgets slashed," says a senior Democratic aide familiar with the plans...
...Hoyle made a few crucial saves in the third frame to keep it a one-goal game. With eight minutes on the clock, Cornell’s Colin Greening nabbed the puck after a defensive-zone faceoff and charged toward the Crimson goal in a breakaway rush. Hoyle got his pad on the initial shot, and when Greening fired off a rebound attempt, the Harvard rookie got in front of the puck again. With about a minute left in the game, Greening took off along the left boards in a 2-on-1 breakaway to try for one last goal...
...added another unanswered goal before shutting the Crimson down in the third period and preventing the team from establishing any rhythm. “I think they’re a physical team, a big team, and they don’t give you a lot off the rush, you’re not going to get a lot of outnumbered situations,” Donato said. “You’re not going to get a lot of great looks, and you’ve really got to establish it off of a forecheck...