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SENTENCED. BERNIE EBBERS, 63, former CEO of WorldCom, convicted in March of orchestrating the $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled the telecommunications giant; to 25 years in prison, the latest and harshest in a string of recent sentences for white-collar executives; in New York City. Under federal guidelines, Ebbers, who maintained his innocence and plans to appeal, must serve at least 85%, or 21 years, of the term, making it all but a life sentence...
...decade, Richard Tuttle had a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A big show at a New York City museum can be career making. Or it can play out the way his did. Tuttle was working with the humble materials he favors to this day--wire, string, bits of Styrofoam, matches, scraps of plywood and cardboard--which he lightly assembled into strange little delicacies. Some of the works in that show, like his "rope pieces"--three-inch lengths of clothesline, fluffed a bit at the edges and attached to the wall with three nails--seemed less like...
...community meeting marks the most recent of a string of delicate maneuverings by the University to win residents’ approval of its plans for expansion into their neighborhood...
More than $5,000 worth of items, including cash and three laptop computers, were stolen in a string of four thefts at Leverett House over the past two weeks...
...Instead, there was a string of last-day opinions, including two involving public displays of the Ten Commandments and one on internet file-sharing. And without comment, the high court declined to hear the case of two reporters, one from the New York Times and the other from Time Magazine, who have refused to testify before a grand jury in order to preserve the confidentiality of their sources...