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...Wetu elicited some interesting responses from passersby. “It wouldn’t really bother me to have it there for a long time…but imagine waking up in that thing…” said one freshman who plead anonymity, so as not to seem culturally insensitive. Another student, who also wished to be anonymous, belittled the Wetu as “a project for some anthropology core...
...scene of the movie, in which the brothers have to decide whether to slaughter unarmed soldiers so that their own troops don’t have to starve or honor their promise to spare and feed the soldiers. Er Hu, moved by compassion, starts to feed the soldiers and plead for their lives, while General Pang, the ruthless and strategic general, has Er Hu locked up so that he cannot protest the massacre of the unarmed soldiers. Lau’s desperate clawing at his chains and guttural shouts as he is locked up express the agony...
...completely hide his disappointment in not getting more ice time. "It's frustrating, yeah," he says. "It is what it is." As the youngest member of the U.S. team - he's 22 - and the alternate, Plys insists that he is in no position to plead his case with his coaches. Perhaps that German skip can teach Plys to speak...
Problem is, a lawyer earning less than $200,000 a year can't afford all that unless he's, say, running a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. And that's exactly the crime that Rothstein, 47, has told a judge he'll plead guilty to later this month. Federal prosecutors have charged Rothstein with swindling investors out of $1.2 billion over the past decade, a scam in which he got them to plow money into lucrative, securitized lawsuit settlements that usually turned out to be nonexistent. The alleged crime wasn't as massive as New York City financier Bernard Madoff...
...Fort Lauderdale and an expert on judicial politics in Florida, says Rothstein could still "create a real mess" in the state's public arena. He doubts that Rothstein - who could be facing life in prison on the charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering leveled against him - would plead guilty if he hadn't struck a beneficial deal with the feds. They in turn almost certainly expect Rothstein "to name names," says Zelden, not only of those who might have aided the Ponzi scheme, "but of politicians who may have been playing any kind of quid pro quo shenanigans with...