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...returned from a business trip to find Miglin missing from their three-story brick row house in Chicago's Gold Coast district. Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly scene. Before killing Miglin, someone had wrapped him in plastic and brown paper and wound his face with masking tape, leaving only a hole for his nose. He was then repeatedly slashed and stabbed, and his throat was cut with a gardening saw. Afterward the killer or killers reportedly fixed a ham sandwich and shaved with the dead man's razor...
...decade, arrogantly convinced that Jonathan Swift's 18th century political satire Gulliver's Travels was just waiting to be made into a mini-series starring Ted Danson, Halmi tirelessly pitched the idea to skeptical network executives until NBC succumbed two years ago. Improbably enough, Gulliver drew critical raves and wound up as last season's highest-rated mini-series. Motivated by that triumph, Halmi, whose curriculum vitae is not entirely without a smattering of titles like Ivana Trump's For Love Alone, has now made it a mission to devote himself almost exclusively to reinterpreting the classics for television...
RUBY RIDGE The year before Freeh arrived, tax resisters in Idaho wound up in a standoff against federal agents. Vicki Weaver and her teenage son were shot to death; her husband Randy Weaver collected $3 million in a wrongful-death suit and became a martyr in the militants' crusade against encroaching law-enforcement agencies. Six officials connected with the showdown were disciplined for "inadequate performance, improper judgment, neglect of duty," even though investigators found no actual misconduct. That might not have gone down so badly had Freeh not promoted as his No. 2 the supervisor of the whole operation, Larry...
Although Rauner intended to concentrate in biology and chemistry while attending Dartmouth College, he wound up graduating with a degree in economics...
...laws against eavesdropping on phone conversations (Boehner was using a cell phone at the time) and disclosing their contents. The Martins have agreed to cooperate with the ongoing investigation into how the embarrassing conversation transcript was initially passed to the then-ranking Democrat on the ethics committee and eventually wound up in the hands of The New York Times...