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Among them were Virginia McMartin, her daughter Peggy and two grown grandchildren, all of whom worked at McMartin's preschool in a Los Angeles suburb, which became the subject of the longest and costliest trial in American history. The case ended in 1990 with no convictions on any of the 65 criminal counts. Now the family's seven-year legal ordeal is the subject of Indictment: The McMartin Trial, a gripping-though excessively pious-TV movie that will make its debut May 20 on hbo. Conceived and scripted by veteran screenwriter Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Atlanta Child Murders...
...Wall Street players will tell you they deserve big rewards for having to work 14-hour days and eating Chinese takeout from cartons. Wall Street has a lot of tradition, just like baseball used to, before they canceled the season. One of the longest-standing traditions is that if you make money for the firm, you get to keep a huge chunk of the profits yourself, but if you lose money for the firm, the firm covers the losses. For instance, Salomon Brothers lost $399 million last year, the banking version of finishing in the cellar, yet not a single...
...this administration to succeed," Sancton says. "In France, there's a sense that you have to really want it more than the other guys, and you have to have been a presidential hopeful for 20 or 30 years. And Chirac, the best campaigner, had been at it the longest and wanted it the most." Now, he adds, the new president plans a Thatcherite program to deliver on his campaign promise to sharply reduce unemployment...
...movie" about the mass paranoia surrounding day care centers and allegations of sexual abuse in them during the 1980's. Among the victims of the hysteria were the McMartin family, who were accused of horrific crimes in their Southern California day care center. Their trial, then the longest and costliest in American history, ended in 1990 with no convictions. But screenwriters Abby and Myra Mann's nine-year obsession with the case leaves the film feverishly trying to convince any doubters of the McMartin's innocence...
...building was massive and crude, the device sent through the Sacramento mail was small and carefully put together-and designed to blow away a specific human target. It bore the telltale signs of a mysterious terrorist who has been eluding law-enforcement agencies for nearly two decades, in the longest-running unsolved serial-bombing case in fbi history. Soon a letter sent by the culprit to the New York Times confirmed what investigators feared: Murray was the latest victim of the shadowy figure the fbi calls Unabom, or the Unabomber...