Word: yesterday
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...actually just had a conversation with Sergeant Jim Crowley, the officer involved. And I have to tell you that as I said yesterday, my impression of him was that he was a outstanding police officer and a good man, and that was confirmed in the phone conversation -- and I told him that...
...shows how wonderfully diverse New Jersey has become. When I was kid, the Irish ran Hudson County and Jersey City, the Italians had Hoboken and Newark, and in later years Hispanics muscled into West New York and Union City. They did not share. Look at the names on yesterday's arrest list, and it's a beautiful rainbow of wretchedness. Italians, Jews and Irish; Hispanics, blacks and whites. Democrats and (one) Republicans. Men and women. People from...
...DIEGO, Calif.—In the ongoing search for “my team,” I traveled to San Diego yesterday morning for the first ballpark installment of A Fan for Sale. After a long week at my real job, I hadn’t really had time to do my research for this game and therefore had no idea what to expect. But talking with Padres closer and All-Star rep Heath Bell, I got the scoop boiled down...
...Speaking to reporters yesterday, Rudd issued his toughest comments yet in the case of Stern Hu, a Chinese-born Australian executive with mining giant Rio Tinto. Last week the Shanghai State Security Bureau arrested Hu and three Chinese colleagues on suspicion of industrial spying and stealing state secrets related to iron-ore prices. The arrests came amid acrimonious ore-price negotiations between Chinese steelmakers and global mining companies. (See pictures of Chinese investment in Africa...
...Secrecy in China's criminal-justice system has made it difficult to find out the specifics of the charges against Rio Tinto employees. But China Daily, a state-run newspaper, reported yesterday that the multinational company's representatives allegedly bribed officials from 16 Chinese steel mills who were participating in negotiations over iron-ore prices. The story quoted an unnamed manager at a large steel company who said that Rio Tinto paid for industry data, which was "an unwritten industry practice." Rio Tinto officials denied its employees stole state secrets and said the company's ethics policies forbid bribery...