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...Glen Road was a genteel British woman, an Old World type who raised horses on the grounds and decorated its interior with Victorian furniture. She often invited neighbors over for tea and cucumber sandwiches, impressing them with her upper-crust authenticity. "She was such a lovely lady," says Elizabeth Smith, who lives just down the street. But a few years ago, the house changed hands, and last week the neighborhood learned that the current owner had, according to police, converted the beloved estate into an equally well-regarded bordello. "Oh, the former owner would be terribly upset if she knew...
...residents value their privacy. But something always seemed different about Dempsey and her husband Robert. One Christmas shortly after they moved into Sunnymede, the Dempseys invited most of the neighborhood to their house for a lavish soiree. Champagne flowed in rivers. "We're mostly straitlaced Methodists," Elizabeth Smith says. "She seemed like a party girl. Not my type." Soon after, the couple divided Sunnymede's 3.2 acres into individual plots and built houses for sale on them. It irked longtime residents. "It was like she was fattening up everybody before she did it," says a neighbor...
...survey the bidding. The market low (based on closing prices) for the past five months was reached Friday. The average NASDAQ stock was down 39% from its 52-week high, and the average stock on the New York Stock Exchange was down 30%, according to Salomon Smith Barney. The average decline in stocks of very small companies (market value under $250 million) was a staggering 47%. Those are major losses, masked by the more visible Dow decline of just less than...
Lawmakers have refused to put into place the strong deterrent measures that would cause people to fear committing violent criminal acts. So long as the medicine--the law--is weak, the illness--capital crimes--will not be cured. REAGAN SMITH Sacramento, Calif...
...Martin is, as Lewinsky's spokeswoman Judy Smith says, "one of those docs who still make house calls," he only gradually gained the trust of his patients in this case. Retained soon after the scandal broke to represent Monica's mother, Marcia Lewis, he quickly devised ways of moving the women around town without notice of the camera crews, using techniques he honed as a 1980s prosecutor in the San Francisco organized-crime strike-force office. There he planned movements of such famous guests of the federal witness-protection program as Aladena ("Jimmy the Weasel") Fratianno...