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Nick Leeson,the 28-year-old trader at the center of the collapse of Britain's oldest investment bank, is begging to be tried in London rather than be "thrown to the wolves" at a "show trial" in Singapore, where he allegedly made hundreds of millions in bad trades that bankrupted Baring Bros. Unfortunately for him, the Serious Fraud Office in London said it had no evidence that would justify Leeson's extradition to the United Kingdom. Leeson's wife read his plea, written in the German jail where he now awaits a decision, at a news conference today. Singapore...
...year campaign of murder through the mail. Both newspapers received the mailed document Thursday. The newspapers would have to print three follow-up messages a year, and the Unabomberhas not promised to halt a campaign of blowing up buildings or other property.The offer has thrown the journalistic world onto the horns of a dilemma: "The bomber might be satisfied or he might not be," says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York. "The ante might go up. How about 24 hours on CNN? A half hour on the nightly news...
...embarrassed that I cared about school, and now I felt I hadn't cared enough. Soon after I arrived, my "high" SAT scores became something I preferred not to mention, and I couldn't believe how little I had read and how inadequate I felt to address the issues thrown at me in my dorm and my classes...
...Johnson children never learn about this affair while they are young. It is not until they are puzzled by the request in their mother's estate that her ashes be thrown off one the bridges that they even learn of the events of that week. It is though their reading of Francesca's journals and their discovery of some of kincaid's photographic treasures in the house that they begin to see their mother as a very different woman...
...charged with turning the budget's broad outline into detailed spending legislation, are rejecting their party's more revolutionary ideas for cutting the size of government-and, some dismayed Republicans say, jeopardizing the G.O.P.'s chances of actually achieving a balanced budget by 2002. The proposals being thrown out by the Appropriations Committee are relatively modest. But if lawmakers can't say no to little programs, it bodes ill for their ability later on to cut the bigger ones, like entitlements. No one is more worried by the direction in which things are headed than Budget Committee chairman John Kasich...