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...variety of ways, such as through participation in the First-Year Caucus, in committees and at full council meetings. New council members who are not directors have been extremely involved in sponsoring legislation and amendments, making influential remarks in debate and serving as student-faculty representatives to various committees...
Although Kott told TIME he was only a consultant to First Commerce, Dutch prosecutor Jan Koers says he found overwhelming evidence that Kott owned the company and played a major role in running it. He accused Kott of fraud, tax evasion and various other crimes. The criminal investigation stalled because Kott could not be extradited from Canada. Kott settled the case against him and other operators of the boiler room for about $4 million. This was pocket change in comparison with what First Commerce collected. Prosecutor Koers estimates that investors lost a bare minimum of $100 million. Jan van Apeldoorn...
Early this year, several Oxford branch managers and employees from various parts of the country held at least two meetings at Kott's Beverly Hills mansion. Rubenstein, according to a former employee, was at both meetings, but they were chaired by Kott. A source in the brokerage business says Kott has actually described himself as the "owner" of JB Oxford. When TIME asked Kott about his relationship with JB Oxford, he denied owning any stock and described himself as a consultant...
...collaborator, choreographer Susan Marshall, get around this difficulty by telling the story largely through music and movement, not singing. Paul and Lise are represented on stage not only by singers (Philip Cutlip and Christine Arand in both productions) but also by three dancers, enabling Glass and Marshall to illustrate various aspects of their personalities simultaneously. Indeed, Marshall's fluid, shifting, molting steps stand in marked contrast to Glass's crystalline music, scored for three electronic keyboards and recalling the textures, if not the melodies, of Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces. The collaborators--Cocteau obviously excepted--call their work a dance...
...released from a mental hospital and befriended by a boy (Lucas Black) who could be a healthier version of the lonely, imperiled child Karl was and still is. Rural Arkansas is home to some very decent people--the boy Frank, his mother and her boss (Ritter), Karl and his various keepers--and one or two moral skunks, notably the loutish boyfriend (Dwight Yoakam) of Frank's mom. Sling Blade is about the difficulty good folks have living with rotten ones. The film keeps you guessing whether it will be a horror movie or a love story. Turns...