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What's all the fuss, here? Lynnwood is a nice Watts-Compton-adjacent community... http://www.streetgangs.com/maps/southla_turf.html http://www.streetgangs.com/homicides/laplot.pdf http://www.lasd.org/divisions/correctional/crdf/index.html...

Oops! Paris Hilton must serve 45 days in jail The heiress will do time for violating probation by driving on a suspended license. By Andrew Blankstein and Megan Garvey, Times Staff Writers, May 5, 2007 ... Two hours later, Hilton departed with a 45-day jail sentence and a verbal...

Paris will most likely serve her prescribed time in a cushy L.A. County jail like the one in El Segundo overlooking the Lakers training facility. Or, maybe the county will erect a temporary jail just for her in Malibu - with a view, of course - where they might put her to work...

But, wait, there's more: Father Knows Worst: Brooklyn Identity Thief Arrested With Son April 23, 2007 By artificially inflating the value of stocks with stolen money, a father-and-son identity theft duo made themselves between $600,000 and $1 million before jumping on a plane headed for...

Ahem... actually, "cleverer" is an adjective form of "clever". It's use is not as common as "more clever", which is how you might describe the accused's attorney is attempting to be in the cited news article... http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/clever

America's Richest The Forbes Fictional Fifteen Edited by Michael Noer and Dan Ackman, 09.13.02 ... Gordon Gekko from Oliver Stone's Wall Street, came to symbolize both a man - convicted inside trader Ivan Boesky - and an era: the go-go 1980s. To be sure, many are pure products of the...

Illustration by Nenad Jakesevic for FP 450 Ways to Stop Global Warming By Bill McKibben, FP, May/June 2007 There’s no denying the Earth is getting hotter. Now we just have to draw a line in the sand. The most important number on Earth is almost certainly 450. And just as certainly...

The Return of the Idiot By Alvaro Vargas Llosa, FP, May/June 2007 Throughout the 20th century, Latin America’s populist leaders waved Marxist banners, railed against foreign imperialists, and promised to deliver their people from poverty. One after another, their ideologically driven...

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A Healthy Mix of Rest and Motion By PETER JARET, New York Times, Published: May 3, 2007 SOME gymgoers are tortoises. They prefer to take their sweet time, leisurely pedaling or ambling along on a treadmill. Others are hares, impatiently racing through miles at high intensity. Each...

Heavy Options Activity Stirs Suspicions By VIKAS BAJAJ, May 3, 2007 Did word of Rupert Murdoch’s offer for Dow Jones leak out early? On April 25, less than a week before the $60-a-share offer was publicly disclosed, an investor bought an option to buy 280,000 shares of Dow Jones for $40...

Wall Street Journal weighs life under Murdoch By Richard Siklos, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Rupert Murdoch has spent years thinking about what he would do with The Wall Street Journal if he could just get his hands on it. Based on his business history, he often gets what he wants. But...

Murdoch Left to Woo Bancrofts; Dow Jones Doesn't Act (Update2) By Andy Fixmer May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Dow Jones & Co.'s refusal to act on News Corp.'s $5 billion takeover bid leaves Rupert Murdoch with the task of convincing members of the company's controlling Bancroft family to sell...

Pisani is often called "The Italian Stallion" by Mark Haines. It's not mentioned in his Bio, but we're not sure we really want to know where that label comes from... BOB PISANI A CNBC reporter since 1990, Bob Pisani has reported on Wall Street and the stock market from the floor of...

... continued: News Corp.'s move could spark competing offers from media titans such as Washington Post Co., New York Times and Bloomberg LP, some analysts suggest. The company's flagship Wall Street Journal is the second-largest U.S. daily, after Gannett Co.'s USA Today. The Journal's...

HEARD ON THE STREET Dow Jones: the Premium Question Murdoch's Lofty Offer Could Deter Rivals; Buffett Unlikely to Bid By SUSAN PULLIAM, GREGORY ZUCKERMAN and KAREN RICHARDSON, WSJ Online, May 2, 2007; Page C1 Dow Jones long has traded at a premium relative to other newspaper companies...

<< ? >> ... Murdoch's $5 Billion Bid for Dow Jones Faces Tough Going As Bancrofts Oppose Deal By Seth Sutel, AP Business Writer, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 NEW YORK (AP) -- Rupert Murdoch hasn't shied from fights as he built News Corp. into a global media empire. But his surprise $5 billion...

Why journalists (and shareholders) should cheer Murdoch by Adam Lashinsky, FORTUNE, CNNMoney.com, April 1, 2007 ... "... I was reminded why journalists are so smitten with Murdoch, even the ones who disagree passionately with his politics. The guy loves journalism. I mean, he really loves...