Word: offing
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CHARGED. YUN SOO OH PARK, 50, a.k.a. "Tokyo Joe," with fraud; by the Securities and Exchange Commission; in New York City. Park charged online subscribers for stock advice, then traded ahead of his picks, making "substantial profits," said the SEC.
I came home too dejected to write, which may explain much of this column. But after a big mug of Ovaltine and a very inspiring passage from Tony Robbins, I remembered that most people don't like to write. And really, that's what it's all about--not the...
SETTLEMENT PROPOSED. FOR 1,281 ATTICA INMATES, in a 25-year-old class action that stemmed from guard-inflicted beatings after the 1971 upstate New York prison uprising that left 43 dead and 80 injured; for $8 million from the State of New York, by a federal judge's order...
INDICTED. JAMAL ("Shyne") BARROW, 19, aspiring rapper and protege of Sean ("Puffy") Combs, in the Times Square-area nightclub shooting that wounded three and brought a fleeing Combs and actress girlfriend Jennifer Lopez to a Manhattan precinct for questioning; for attempted murder; in New York City. Lopez testified before the...
FLED. UGYEN TRINLEY DORJE, 14, one of Tibetan Buddhism's highest reincarnated lamas; in an eight-day trek that began with climbing out his bedroom window while Chinese guards slept and escaping from Tibet over the Himalayas to Dharamsala, India. His departure is a blow to China's attempts to...