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...Nashville shopping mall was an odd place for the skein of corruption scandals that have ensnarled New York City and Chicago to begin unraveling. But that was where police picked up Michael Burnett, a corpulent ex-con, swindler and murder suspect who was to provide important evidence in corruption investigations in both cities. Burnett, police said later, had stopped at the mall to make last-minute preparations for a burglary. Inside his van, officers found a submachine gun, ammunition and an automatic pistol...
...Crimson extended its winning streak over the Raiders to seven straight and upped its home unbeaten skein...
...difficult to imagine that Jerry Berndt ever suffered through a losing season with the Quakers, And it's even harder to imagine that the 47-year-old head coach ever suffered through a nine-game losing skein...
...matter how far the current investigation goes, moreover, the almost seamless skein of evidence collected so far has been greeted with skepticism. For years, Mengele had displayed an uncanny adeptness for eluding his pursuers. Suddenly, not long after the search intensified once again earlier this year, the body was found and tidy explanations appeared. "The whole matter looks like a play with a perfect script," said Simon Wiesenthal, who has tracked down more than 1,100 Nazis in a 38-year campaign. "Mengele lives and breathes," said Menachem Rusek, director of Israel's police unit investigating Nazi crimes, before flying...
...Crimson (now 7-6) may have lost some of the momentum of its four-game winning skein, but otherwise would appear in good shape to wrest the number-one raking in New England away from UMass with a victory over Dartmouth at home on Saturday. In the latest poll, the laxmen were ranked a single vote behind the Minutemen, who Harvard beat earlier this season at Amherst...