Word: metropolitan
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...they won't be reaching is Buford O. Furrow. Currently being held in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, he could face the death penalty if he is found guilty of California charges of murder and attempted murder. He also faces federal charges for illegal-weapons possession and the murder of a U.S. Postal Service carrier during the performance of his duties. "There was always an aura of the macabre around him," says Furrow's classmate Merrill. "He fits the portrait of someone who would do this...on the other hand, he doesn't at all." Furrow...
...Pays" was never more true than Wednesday, when the nation's second-largest life insurer agreed to pay a megamillion-dollar settlement of lawsuits accusing the company of deceptive sales practices. Pending a federal judge's approval, Metropolitan Life says it will distribute $1.7 billion to some 7 million people who bought insurance and annuities between 1982 and 1997. This agreement will take care of a collection of class-action suits brought by the feds and private citizens, and is the latest in a long line of settlements by large insurers over questionable sales tactics. Example: "churning," in which...
...work in his Senate office as an intern. "He wanted her to understand how the Senate operated and what her father's place was in it," says a longtime Kennedy friend. "He made sure...she would meet the players." After college, she worked for five years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and met her husband, the interactive-media designer Edwin Schlossberg. In 1988 she graduated from Columbia Law School and gave birth to their first child, Rose. Soon after, she began researching a book on the Bill of Rights, In Our Defense, with her friend and law-school classmate...
...WHRB has few competitors seeking to carry on the Metropolitan opera tradition...
Another potential Metropolitan opera broadcaster, Boston's public radio station WGBH-FM (89.7), recently said they declined to carry the opera program because it would displace its popular Saturday afternoon folk music shows...