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...monkeys from the dilapidated zoo had escaped onto I-95; in March 1999 the Roger Williams Park Zoo was named one of the nation's best by Travel & Leisure Family magazine. That's in part because Cianci mastered the art of federal grantsmanship and leveraged municipal bonds. "The biggest trick," he confides, "is to use other people's money...
...them, former Skakel tutor Kenneth Littleton, has for the past three days been the focus of stunning testimony saying that police tried to trick him into confessing to the murder in a Boston hotel room in 1992. Investigators recruited Littleton's ex-wife, Mary Baker, to wear a recording device and lie to Littleton, saying he had told her he was the murderer during a drunken blackout. Prosecutors fought to suppress the testimony but Judge John Kavanewsky has allowed most of it. Attempting to debunk Littleton's "confession", Benedict yesterday had Baker read a 98-page transcript of the hotel...
Brooks was not alone in her scoring feat as Meghan Burnett led Johns Hopkins’ with a hat trick and two assists...
Harvard’s run was sparked by freshman midfielder Elaine Belitsos’ goal at 19:19. Brooks followed, capping off her hat trick on a free position at 14:53, and junior Katie O’Brien also scored on a free position at 12:06, completing the rally for an 8-4 Harvard lead...
...Sharon had been selected as party leader simply as a caretaker following Netanyahu's 1999 drubbing at the hands of Ehud Barak. Ironically, it was right-wing defections from Netanyahu's own government that had forced that election. Eighteen months later, a crafty parliamentary trick by Barak allowed Sharon rather than the preferred Netanyahu to be the party's candidate in a new election - Netanyahu was precluded from standing under the rules governing that particular election because he was not a member of the Knesset at the time. (Barak believed his own chances were better against Sharon than against Netanyahu...