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| www.michaelkors.com Former WorldCom finance chief Scott Sullivan was sentenced to 5 years in prison Thursday by the judge who called him "the architect" and "day-to-day manager" of the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history.U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones said she was giving Sullivan a break because he had helped the federal government build its case against ex-CEO Bernard Ebbers and since his wife is extremely ill.Still, the judge said, "Mr. Sullivan's offenses were from the highest magnitude. Mr. Sullivan, I really believe, was the architect of the fraud at WorldCom."Sullivan showed no emotion because he was sentenced, reports CBS News Correspondent Cami McCormick.Sullivan took over as the fifth WorldCom executive to be sentenced to prison within the $11 billion scandal. His sentence is topped only with that of Ebbers, who got Twenty five years.Still, "it's a sentence that sends a powerful message that it's usually a good idea to cooperate with federal prosecutors after they come calling," said CBSNews.com Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen. "Sullivan did, and that he will spend a fraction of the time imprisonment that his former boss Bernard Ebbers provides, even though Sullivan clearly was at the heart of the massive fraudulent scheme."Before he was sentenced, Sullivan told legal court he was ashamed and embarrassed."I will carry the duty of my failing always," he stated. "I am sorry for the hurt that's been caused by my cowardly decisions. I really am, Your Honor."Sullivan was ordered to are accountable to prison Nov. 11. The judge said she'd recommend he be used on the federal prison in Pensacola, Fla., near his home, anf the husband be placed in an alcohol cure.The judge did not impose a superb.Sullivan told the judge his wife is severely diabetic and has been taken to the hospital for emergencies nine times this season alone. The couple have a 4-year-old daughter."The time of a 4-year-old girl hangs in the balance," Sullivan's lawyer Irv Nathan told the judge prior to sentence was imposed.Regulations allows a judge to be lenient whenever a non-violent felon's family member is sick, says Cohen. no previous page next 1/2
tall ugg boots Eleven people, including the jet's captain, were killed when American Airlines flight 1420 skidded off somewhat Rock runway on a stormy June night. Now, reports CBS News Correspondent Bob Orr, air traffic control tapes just released through the Federal Aviation Administration strongly suggest the pilots were to blame.Sixteen minutes before the crash, air traffic controllers issued the very first of multiple weather alerts. "American 1420, Little Rock approach, said a controller, "roger there exists a thunderstorm just northwest of the airport moving through the area now."The copilot acknowledged the warning: "Yeah we can see the lightning."The McDonnell-Douglas MD-82, inbound from Dallas with 145 people aboard, continued its approach. Conditions deteriorated and controllers issued a wind shear alert. Heavy rains managed to get difficult for the pilots to view the runway."There's a cloud between us as well as the airport," said the copilot. "We just lost the field"The plane then created a series of turns as the pilots locked on to the runway using instruments, though the weather only got worse."We have heavy rain about the airport," the tower warned the pilots. "The visibility is less than a mile."A second wind shear alert was issued, but the pilots pressed on with the landing. There wasn't any talk about going to a different airport.Little Rock controllers cleared the flight to land. The plane's copilot acknowledged the tower's instructions: "American 1420, thanks."That was the final radio call from the jet. The MD-82 touched down in strong crosswinds, skidded from the end of the rain-slicked runway, hit the light standard and caught fire.Compounding the crash, it took emergency crews 13 minutes to obtain the wreckage.Now, investigators need to know why it took so long to discover the crash. But more to the point, why the pilots made a decision to force a landing when confronted with a dangerous thunderstorm.Beyond the weather factor, investigators are stated to be looking into whether the pilots might have neglected to set the spoilers, panels on the wings that pop up to slow the plane recorded on landing.Another question is whether fatigue was a factor. The co-pilot, who survived using a broken leg, had been awake for 16 1/2 hours and on duty more than 13 hours the morning of the crash.The FAA wouldn't normally comment on the contents of the transcript because an investigation is under way. The National Transportation Safety Board has scheduled a hearing for Jan. 26-28 in Little Rock to analyze details of the incident.
ugg classic tall Nearly 450 years after the seer Nostradamus is said to have predicted ?"terror descending on the world?" this month, the British -- never shy to position a bet -- are lining up to acquire a piece of the action, reports CBS News Correspondent Tom Rivers.It was way back in 1555 that the French mystic predicted we?'d have a very rough ride in the seventh month of 1999.Graham Sharpe, from Britain?'s William Hill bookmaking chain, thought he previously seen it all. But because of the unique nature of the ?"end of world?" wager, he?'s letting the shoppers choose their own odds. ?"I?'m pretty certain that we won?'t must pay out if they?'re correct,?" says Sharpe. On the list of choose-your-own odds are a world war at 500-to-1 and aliens overpowering the world at 5,000-to-1. The rank outsider is global mass suicide at 100 million-to-1.CBS News Correspondent Tom RiversSharpe acknowledges that a lot of of the bets are done to get a laugh. The tongue-in-cheek wagers are positioned to obtain an ?"end of the world?" betting slip being framed for posterity. But, he adds, ?"Some are serious; their 26-page letters supporting their theories ensures they?'ve thought about it for a long time.?" In fact, ?"some will clearly be unhappy if the world doesn?'t end.?"At least Matthew Dumbrell has figured out a way to have his cake and eat it too. If your world ends, the Londoner intends to collect on his one-million-to-one bet because as Sharpe says, Dumbrell ?"believes that even bookmakers will go to heaven and I?'m quite pleased to meet them there!?"So, to know? Sharpe could well become the manager with the first celestial betting shop. Fo the time being, the bookmaker remains philosophical. ?"As long since they?'re 18 years old and in possession of their faculties, it?'s entirely around them. We don?'t force them to come to the betting shops and provides us their money. But if they choose to do that, we?'re not gonna turn them away.?"Odds are, we haven?'t seen the last bet yet.Written by Tom Rivers©1999, CBS Worldwide Inc., All Rights Reserved
http://bottesuggpascher.physicianvacancies.com Police and soldiers are coaxing a number of Hurricane Katrina's stubborn holdouts from their homes, per day after the mayor ordered all 10,000 or so residents still in this ruined city evacuated — by force, as appropriate — because of the risk of fires and disease."I haven't left the home in my life. I don't want to leave," said a frail-looking 86-year-old Anthony Charbonnet, shaking his head as they locked his front door and walked slowly backwards around the steps of the house where he'd lived since 1955.The efforts to evacuate come as tragic reports of people who could not get out are starting to emerge. Louisiana Congressman Charlie Melancon says more than 100 people died inside a dockside warehouse and CBS News Correspondent Lee Cowan reports that 32 died with a flooded-out nursing home just outside New Orleans.Cowan reports that long before the storm hit, a doctor offered the owner of the elderly care facility two buses to help evacuate the residents. The master declined, but two hours later, changed her mind and pleaded for help -- but the storm was moving in, and also by then the buses were helping others. Aaron Broussard, obama of nearby Jefferson Parish, had a colleague who's mother is at the nursing home, Cowan reports. He promised her again and again help was on the way."Somebody is coming to get you on Tuesday, somebody's getting you on Wednesday, somebody's getting you on Thursday, somebody's going to get you on Friday," Broussard said. "And she drowned Friday night."As the putrid, bacteria-filled floodwaters started to slowly recede with the first of the city's pumps time for operation, Mayor C. Ray Nagin instructed law enforcement officials officers and the U.S. military late Tuesday to evacuate all holdouts for own safety. He warned the fetid water could spread disease which natural gas was leaking around town.As of midday Wednesday, there are no reports of anyone being removed by force."We have lots of people who want to voluntarily evacuate at the moment," Police Chief Eddie Compass said. "Once they are all out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation."CBS News Correspondent John Roberts reports that some residents are complaining in regards to the aggressive tactics of a few of state forces who've joined the evacuation effort."They came at gunpoint, told us, 'Come out of our home with a gun, we'll shoot you. Enter the boat now," said Rick Matthew.Roberts reports that city officials – already stretched beyond limits – not have the resources to look after people so isolated and so they fear, with each passing day, safety and health becomes a greater concern. "It's the complete sewer system. This city's just like a big bowl and that sun is definitely baking a great big toilet every single day," said D.J. Riley in the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.Dr. Julie Gerberding, director in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the health hazards from the water ensure it is imperative that remaining residents escape. no previous page next 1/3
ugg boots on sale A federal judge Monday ordered Nyc to restore millions of dollars to the Brooklyn Museum of Art after funding was stop in a dispute over a controversial art exhibit.U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon, within a 40-page opinion filed in Brooklyn federal court, granted the museum's get a preliminary injunction against the city. She determined that the museum "has established irreparable harm plus a likelihood of success on its First Amendment claim."Gershon's order bars Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and city officials from "taking steps to inflict any punishment, retaliation, discrimination or sanction" from the museum for the exhibit, called Sensation , that opened recently.The museum sued the city last month, claiming its First Amendment rights had been violated by Giuliani's decision to freeze a $7.Two million subsidy - about a third of their annual budget. It sought the injunction to revive funds until the legal dispute could be settled.The art war broke out at a Sept. 22 news conference, once the mayor called the exhibit of functions young British artists - featuring a portrait of the Virgin Mary adorned with elephant dung - "sick," sacrilegious and unworthy of taxpayer support.Following your museum refused to cancel the show, the city withheld a $497,554 payment for October, then sued in state court to evict the museum from the city-owned site it has leased for more than 100 years.Museum supporters have likened the city's reaction to a book burning. At a hearing before Gershon, museum attorney Floyd Abrams accused the location of trying to punish free speech."The behavior of the city is often a First Amendment catastrophe," Abrams said. The town and Giuliani are attacking the museum "for not doing anything more than exercising its constitutional rights."City attorneys countered the Constitution has nothing to do with it.They argued the museum broke its contract together with the city, thereby creating cause eviction. Its lease requires the museum which contains the second largest art collection in the nation to educate schoolchildren and the general public.Museum supporters have accused Giuliani - the likely Republican nominee for U.S. Senate next year - of pandering to conservative voters. City officials allege the museum board of directors, British collector Charles Saatchi and a sponsor, Christie's auction house, of trying to cash in on work by modern artists whose sole aim is to shock.Aside from the portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung, the show includes mannequins with genitals as facial expression, a glass tank which has a fake cow's head and 20,000 live maggots and farm animals bisected and displayed in formaldehyde.The exhibit has drawn large crowds.By Tom Hays©1999 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. These toppers may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed
www.ahlborn-kirchenorgeln.com/uggaustralia.html The U.S. military is really dependent on computers for sets from operating tanks to make payment on troops that a senior Pentagon official had publicly warned year 2000 computer glitches could cause an electric El Nino. On Thursday, that same official declared victory over the Y2K bug, reports CBS News Correspondent David Martin. "We're ready. We anticipate simply no problems in the Department of Defense," said Deputy Defense Secretary John Hambre.Of 2,100 critical computer systems, pair of used by the agency which analyzes satellite photos won't be ready. All the others, like the targeting software for the Tomahawk cruise missile, happen to be tested, and declared ready to do battle with an enemy called Y2K."Rarely will a military organization know precisely the time and the date and the place if the enemy will attack. In such cases we did," said Hamre. Eighteen months ago, barely a quarter of the critical systems needed and the military thought Y2K was strictly a challenge for computer geeks."It was hard getting everybody focused until this was about war-fighting. This was not about computer systems. This was war-fighting," Hamre said. The Pentagon has spent $3.5 billion fighting the battle of Y2K, including starting a joint missile warning center using the Russians to make sure a computer glitch doesn't trigger false alarms of an attack."We're going to make sure that there are no questions, concerns or problems between these two countres if there is a missile launch somewhere," said Lt. Col. Gregory Boyette.Lots of the world's militaries are not Y2K ready, however they are not as dependent on computers because the American military. As the Pentagon's No. 2 man put it, only the U.S. is now so automated it's forgotten the best way to do it by hand.©1999 CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved. These toppers may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed
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