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...behind bars. But in the settlement, prosecutors dropped their most serious charges, including insider trading and racketeering, which carried a potential prison sentence of more than 500 years. Moreover, with a personal fortune estimated to be in excess of $1 billion, Milken is likely to retain a sizable nest egg. "Justice wasn't served," declares Albert Sindlinger, who runs a stock market-research firm catering to small investors. "Considering all the damage he did to stockholders, taxpayers and the public's confidence in the stock market, Milken is getting off easy...
Outside, Hanoi's narrow tree-lined streets are filled with bicycles and pedicabs, for private cars are a rarity in the city. In the busy market area, customers crowd into a tiny but popular cafe that serves white coffee with a whipped raw egg to help ward off the pervasive dampness of the rainy season. Around the corner on Hang Gai Street, shoppers wander past privately owned clothing and novelty shops that are little more than window fronts. Nevertheless, they are the busiest stores in Hanoi. One of them is owned by Dao Thi Huan, 71, a retired government worker...
...office, he - boasts of building the world's second largest indoor parking garage so that tenants of his Phoenix office complex never have to endure a moment without air conditioning -- an accomplishment that could comprise a political philosophy in a state where it's not the humidity but the egg-frying heat that dogs people. Symington was virtually unknown until he waged a state-of-the-art zoning fight, the first to use television ads. He may see the race as a grudge match against telegenic former Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard, a Democratic candidate who fought his high-rise development...
...biggest attractions are those that enable participants to get close to endearing animals like whales and orangutans, but some more specialized projects have been successful as well. There seems to be no trouble, for example, getting volunteers to walk miles of beach all night long in search of egg-laying turtles. For another, less appealing assignment, Blue Magruder, Earthwatch's director of public affairs, somehow found eight paying volunteers for a study of the use of sewage in agriculture in Ohio...
...daughter, Imogen, played by Lyn Wright, has a similarly meager repertoire of gestures. Furthermore, her flat delivery and stilted English accent can only irritate. When Imogen urges her servant, Pisanio, to "plunge thy dagger into the mansion of my love, my heart," the viewer is sorely tempted to egg...