WASHINGTON -- The president of a Chicago-based investment fund misspent nearly $11 million in investments by Detroit area pension funds on lavish travel and entertainment and diverted some money into a company that operates a Detroit strip club, according to federal regulators.
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Forensic pathologists have become staple heroes and heroines of crime fiction in recent years, but new author Thomas Holland has a unique take on the genre.
WASHINGTON – The master plan for merging the U.S., Mexico and Canada is being devised in American University's Center for North American Studies whose faculty is subsidized by the U.S. State Department through the Fulbright Program.
A Garland, Texas, man chose the wrong time to whiz past the weight scales on Interstate 30 recently, resulting in Arkansas Highway Police officers finding some 300 pounds of marijuana hidden in his truck.
By Gordon, James PERSONAL WEB LOGS, SOCIAL networking sites, and the growing amount of personal information easily and freely accessible to all on the Web is diminishing the line between public and private life.
It's a fine line, and those are typically the most difficult to stride. Opposites pull each way, some yin, some yang, and not a whole lot in between. The USC faithful look at their unbeaten Trojans and are absolutely torn by conflicting reactions.
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In 1993, Ashley Judd starred in a disarmingly modest Southern indie movie called Ruby in Paradise . She played a young woman from the rural South (Kentucky, or maybe Tennessee) who packs her car in the opening credits, fleeing a bad relationship, and heads south to Florida to start a new life.
The latest in a series of movies that has tracked a group of Britons every seven years, from age 7. It's a startling reminder of the wasting and widening that the human body goes through. Not all are glad to see director Michael Apted for this installment. (B.N.) Not rated (but could be PG for mature thematic elements). 1 hour, 14 minutes.BerkeleyShattuck Cinemas THU to SUN: 1:55, 4:30, 7:15,