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...Michael Milken copped a plea last April, he disappointed everyone who had been hoping to see the white-collar trial of the decade. Now Milken is having his day in court, but it will be a quick one. In an unusual proceeding that began last week, federal Judge Kimba Wood will hear evidence about some of the 92 charges Milken did not admit when he pleaded guilty to six felony counts of securities fraud and other crimes. Prosecutors hope to offset the efforts of Milken's lawyers to cite his philanthropic activities as grounds for a lenient sentence. Milken...
...hearing has drawn flak from legal scholars and civil libertarians, who charge that the evidence and testimony will not be subjected to the same scrutiny as they would in a trial. The special hearings are expected to end this week, with Wood sentencing Milken soon afterward...
...Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari made sure all the stops were pulled out for this exhibit. The country's biggest media mogul, Emilio Azcarraga, put up the money. An unprecedented tonnage of basalt, clay, obsidian, jade, gilt, inlaid wood and painted canvas has been moved out of Mexican churches, museums and private collections -- sometimes over protests by local communities that resent having their saints or gods borrowed by the government. On view are 365 objects, starting in l000 B.C. with a five-ton stone Olmec head and finishing in 1949 with Frida Kahlo's The Love-Embrace...
...sitting in the room when [Williams] said [that the compliance reviews would be expanded] and he was taken out of context," Wood said...
...Wood called the compliance reviews of Harvard, UCLA and Berkeley "the most complicated undertaking" ever for the Office of Civil Rights at the Education Department...