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...scene that should warm the heart of any executive in the video-game industry. It's a muggy Manhattan morning late last June. Liam McLaughlin, 23, a full-time games bootlegger, opens the door of his Bleecker Street co-op to find three armed U.S. marshals dressed in SWAT gear, and four suits from the Interactive Digital Software Association, a sort of Pinkerton agency for games manufacturers. The marshals have a warrant. Can they come in and look at his game collection? McLaughlin, it transpires, has been making copies of more than 250 CD-ROM game titles for the Sony...
...real? Though Hillary has always had large political ambitions, close friends at first thought the Senate idea was essentially frivolous, something she would swat down before long. When Rangel began pushing her to run in November, after Moynihan announced his retirement, Hillary seemed more flattered than serious. But she didn't discourage his overtures. Friends say she is ambivalent about doing the kind of high-profile good works--for the United Nations, for private foundations--that others often assume are in her future. And the more Rangel talked, the more she listened, tried the idea on for size and liked...
...bubble has burst. But if you paid $199 a share for Amazon.com on Jan. 8, you know what I mean. If you didn't, here's a hint: last week the stock ended at $117. Forneris surely was influenced by herd thinking. In the weeks before McGwire's famous swat there was a groundswell of local opinion that home-run balls should be returned. "Fans who kept the balls were vilified," says Dan Paisner, who is writing a book on the subject. But it's nothing that...
...murder. But Aguilar insists--and underworld colleagues confirm--that he is in fact a member of a sophisticated kidnapping ring that abducts not for ransom but for hire--usually by politicians, businessmen or criminals who want to scare rivals into submission. Aguilar was highly trained for the ring's SWAT-style ops--to fly single-engine planes, for instance, and belay from a helicopter. "We weren't like the sloppy ransom kidnappers," he says. "We had an honor code...that dictated that you don't commit violence if you don't have...
Unless you consider the Sultan of Swat...