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FORT MEYERS, Florida: It's been a bad couple of days for the bad guys. First, in an update of the old file-baked-in-a-cake ploy, Florida prisoner Gregory WIlliamson got out of jail when his girlfriend faxed a faked pardon to prison authorities. He was caught a week later when he couldn?t resist trying the same trick to spring his former cellmate. Apparently Williamson and his girlfriend were planning to go national: When they were arrested in her apartment, police found computers and disks containing official seals for state offices across the country. Meanwhile, Memphis teenager...
...could affect their businesses. One was a $10,000-a-plate dinner attended by Clinton last year at the mansion of Democratic pitchman William Brandt, outside Chicago. It raked in more than $1 million for the D.N.C. The guests included bankruptcy lawyers and bankers. Also present was Brady Williamson, whom Clinton had just appointed chairman of a commission that will file a report later this year recommending changes to bankruptcy...
Federal law forbids most government appointees from using their titles in connection with their appearance at political fund-raising events. Williamson says he was there as a private citizen. But several banking-industry invitees complained that Brandt told them that Williamson would be there and that it would be a good opportunity to voice their views on the new bankruptcy law. In a statement last week to Senator Charles Grassley, David Thompson of First Chicago said Brandt told him the dinner would honor Williamson. "If [Brandt] was doing it, it was against my wishes and the directions of the White...
Tobacco companies took several hard hits, but it did not matter. Richard Kluger's Ashes to Ashes, a comprehensive condemnation of the industry, was published. Liggett and Meyers settled a lawsuit--the first time ever for a tobacco company. A former Brown & Williamson executive turned whistle-blower. The life of Victor Crawford, a former tobacco lobbyist, came to an end from cancer of the throat after he used his final years valiantly lecturing about the evils of smoking. Science proved the direct link between smoking and lung cancer. The end result of such events was that smoking increased among children...
...auteur of A Nightmare on Elm Street offers a Crueltide treat about a serial killer with an enshlocklopedic knowledge of scare-film tropes, from the Friday the 13th hockey mask to the Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer TV helmet. In one of the cute touches from Kevin Williamson's script, this psycho wears an Edvard Munch "Silent Scream" mask while taunting and then killing a frantic young woman (Drew Barrymore) alone in the dark. But that's just for practice. The next victim is a teenage virgin (pretty, plucky Neve Campbell, one of the preternaturally bedimpled kids...