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...their lives have since diverged. Khodorkovsky, 40, is now in jail, charged with embezzlement and tax evasion in what many call a politically motivated attack by President Vladimir Putin (Khodorkovsky denies the charges). And Abramovich, 37, can often be found at London's 42,000-seat Stamford Bridge stadium, watching his Chelsea Football Club play in the Premiership. Abramovich has inherited the crown of Russia's wealthiest man - but he seems to be making a move West. While the flamboyant Khodorkovsky was protesting the state's growing authoritarianism, high-handedness and corruption, and lavishly funding opposition parties - leading many...
...HAVEN, Conn.—Just hours before game time yesterday, police sealed off the Yale Bowl and surrounding streets to investigate a suspicious but ultimately harmless package found on the scoreboard overlooking the stadium...
...Haven Police Department (NHPD) and the Yale Police Department (YPD) converged on the stadium just before 8 a.m. after a Yale employee noticed the package—thought at first to be a possible bomb. Police closed off Chapel Street, which runs alongside the Bowl grounds, and closed the stadium to the public before sending in a bomb squad...
Upon inspection, police determined that the package was in fact the product of a prank by as-yet-unidentified perpetrators, conjuring images of the black balloon that rose from below the field at Harvard Stadium 21 years ago emblazoned with the letters...
...further sweep of the stadium by officers paired with bomb-sniffing dogs turned up nothing, and the stadium was reopened at 11:25 a.m, an hour before game time...