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A new report released by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law shows that the rate of bias crimes committed against lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals is comparable to that of other groups already covered by federal hate-crimes laws.

Leona Helmsley, the cutthroat hotel magnate whose title as the ''queen of mean'' was sealed during a tax evasion case in which she was quoted as snarling ''Only little people pay taxes,'' died Monday at age 87. Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn., said her publicist, Howard Rubenstein.