The one that didn't get away
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Good-bye, Frank Quattrone. The investment banker who became famous in money circles as one of Silicon Valley's main pipelines to Wall Street cash during the 1990s boom heard the bad news yesterday. A federal judge in New York gave him 18 months in prison, a slightly tougher stretch than the sentencing guidelines suggested. Expect the normal cycle of appeals, but ...
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Queue submissions being scarce, I suggest we all submit limericks for consideration.  Mod up your favorites.    I'm no poet, so I'll submit a favorite of my childhood:    There was a young woman named Bright,  Who traveled much faster than light    She set out one day  In a relative way    And returned on the previous night.    I'm afraid I don't remember the author.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - With one gold medal already, he could have packed it in. But it wouldn&#39;t have been right, not after what his teammate accomplished Saturday night.
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A search is continuing for a rapist who escaped from a London hospital for the second time in three years.
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For five years, Paul James hitched,   trekked and drove to get away from his native West Africa. He   survived the Sahara, begged on the streets of Morocco and   crossed the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy to reach what he   thought was the promised land.
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It's still not known who the culprit is nor how and when this person obtained the information.
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Hunt for man believed to have absconded from control order on June 18.
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Hugo Vinicio Hernandez knew that immigration agents could detain him at any time for having disregarded a deportation order in 2001. But the Guatemalan man didn't think he would wind up in the custody of immigration agents as a result of a routine traffic stop.
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A one-drug wonder doesn't have a future.
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Fighting an enemy as invisible as he is deadly
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Too big. That&#39;s what it came down to last night for Shane Mosley. The little man who once could can&#39;t anymore. He can&#39;t move fast enough, he can&#39;t
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ROME, Feb 13 (IPS) - Abu Omar apparently never knew he had been tailed,  so he did not notice that the Italian  political crime  investigation unit, DIGOS, had stopped following him. But the  head of the  Central Intelligence Agency in Milan Robert Seldon  Lady knew that DIGOS had aborted the  chase, and that facilitated  the abduction of the Egyptian cleric.
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A suspected murderer who is thought to have killed again remained on bail despite breaching a condition.
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Four years ago, Florence Bock went missing. It turns out she was home the entire time.
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First her kidnappers tried to  strangle her with a rope. When that failed, they held her head  beneath the waters of a sewage canal on the outskirts of Mexico  City until she finally stopped breathing.
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The story got bigger, and so did the monster diamond - but then the 'owner' became elusive.
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.