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...person security team drew ridicule from local residents and politicians, who were quick to note that even the mayor of Chicago, a city three times the size of Detroit, only required 15 bodyguards. He routinely donned a diamond-studded earring and wore flashy suits, even as the city's budget crisis deepened and its population dwindled - threatening its rank as the nation's 11th-largest city. In 2005, a local TV reporter revealed that Kilpatrick had leased a $25,000 Lincoln Navigator for his wife, Carlita, with whom he has three sons, through the city's police department. He also...
...Deep Throat - whose $25,000 budget was covered by Louis "Butchie" Peraino, the son of a made man in New York City's Columbo mob family - went on to earn tens of millions of dollars. Maybe more: the 2005 documentary Inside Deep Throat puts the take at an extremely improbable $600 million. Anyway, it was quite a haul. One federal agent quoted a Peraino underling as saying of the Deep Throat take: "We've got so much money ... we don't even count it any more.... We weigh...
Some of Cambridge’s most vulnerable populations—the mentally ill and the elderly—will soon face a dramatic reduction in health services as a result of major budget cuts to the Cambridge Health Alliance, Dennis D. Keefe, the Alliance’s CEO, told the City Council in a roundtable meeting last night. The state announced last week that it would not provide $55 million that the Alliance had been expecting in state revenue for the current fiscal year. “With two thirds of the year remaining, it will require draconian measures...
...helps to emphasize the disconnect between the realities of Nicolae (Thomas Derrah) and Elena (Karen MacDonald) and those of their people. Elena believes that she is a world-renowned scientist, although she only attended school through the fourth grade. Nicolae spends enormous amounts of the country’s budget on tributes to himself. Vlad Tepes (performed on Friday night by understudy Josh Stamell), the historical Dracula, makes frequent appearances during a pageant held in his honor. As he serves as a consultant for Nicolae, a parallel is drawn between his viciousness and that of the Ceausescus.The actors?...
...organizations. The initiative was originally projected to cost $3 million each year, said Kenneth H. Lafler, director of Student Financial Services at the Law School, in an interview last month. Although Lafler cautioned that these 113 students only signed an expression of interest, the program may need a larger budget than expected if their enthusiasm persists. Forty-two second-year students also indicated their interest, and 48 third-year students signed full commitments to five years of public service work after graduation. These third-year students will receive $5,000 off their current tuition. Kagan said that the Law School...