Civil rights leader Young promotes Wal-Mart in Atlanta area
Andrew Young, longtime civil rights figure, appears at Wal-Mart Grand opening in a black Atlanta suburb dancing with clerks and posing with a $1 million donation for a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial. Critics accuse him of aligning with a major retailer while activists cite wage and benefit concerns and local business effects. Young defends the role as expanding jobs and opportunities for the poor.
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Wal-Mart
Atlanta
Andrew Young
Martin Luther King Jr
National Mall
Washington
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Wal- Mart
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U.N
Lone Wolf
Lowery
King
Moussaoui case closes as defense plans own testimony
Prosecutors finished presenting their case accusing Zacarias Moussaoui of involvement in the Sept 11 attacks. An ex-FBI agent testified that the bureau might have named the hijackers if Moussaoui had confessed upon arrest. Moussaoui then declared he would testify himself, despite his lawyers' wishes.
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Zacarias Moussaoui
FBI
al-Qaida
Moussaoui
Zerkin
Gerald Zerkin
Financier Martin Frankel resentenced in New Haven
A federal judge ordered Martin Frankel to serve the same 17 year term from 2004 for looting more than $200 million from insurers. The sentence follows a Supreme Court ruling expanding judges guidance use and applies to Frankel, who looted insurance companies across Arkansas Mississippi Oklahoma Missouri and Tennessee while living in Greenwich.
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Martin Frankel
Supreme Court
Frankel
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Mississippi
Oklahoma
Missouri
Tennessee
Greenwich
GMAC Sells Mortgages To Attract Finance Bidders
GMAC sold a majority stake in its commercial mortgage division for nearly 9 billion in cash. GMAC Commercial Holding Corp repaid 7.3 billion in intercompany loans as part of the deal. In Newport Richey Florida deputies captured a suspect after a three hour standoff at a mobile home displaying Nazi flags. A 44 year old woman and a 17 year old boy were stabbed by a masked man, the boy seriously hurt, the woman treated and released.
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General Motors Acceptance Corp
Gmac Commercial Holding Corp
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Fla
Patricia Lynn Wells
New York Sues Gratis Internet Over Email Address Sales
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed suit against Gratis Internet accusing the firm of selling consumer email addresses obtained under promises of confidentiality. Spitzer said access was sold to independent marketers leading to hundreds of millions of solicitations.
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Eliot Spitzer
Gratis Internet
Spitzer
Brad Maione
Gratis
Datran Media
New York City
Datran
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