Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the theories of a scam artist named Roy Schwasinger. Schwasinger was founder of a group called We the People, which claimed that the Federal Government had lost a huge class-action lawsuit on behalf of America's landowners, and that a trillion dollars was sitting in a settlement account. For $300, We the People sold a kit with instructions for claiming part of the settlement--and for issuing one's own "checks" against this windfall in the interim. (Schwasinger is now in prison...
...wonder that PRINCESS DI remains the more beloved of the royal family castoffs. Although another embarrassing account of her troubled life is now arriving in bookstores--called Diana: The Lonely Princess, it alleges affairs with a whole new host of unnamed men--Di maintained her dignity last week as she toured Chicago raising money for cancer research. Also Stateside was sister-in-law Fergie, whose trip was not born of altruism. In Manhattan, Fergie, who has signed on with the modeling agency Next Management, inked a deal with Simon & Schuster--reportedly worth $1.3 million--to write her autobiography...
...invest, take you into the community of nations and recognize your legitimate security concern in Lebanon; in exchange for that, you make peace. No return of the Golan." Netanyahu argues that if the U.S. takes that position, Assad will kick and scream for a while, but in the final account Assad will take that because what the U.S. will be offering him is more important for him than the Golan. Netanyahu will have a reasonable chance of persuading the U.S. because after all, he will argue, what is the rush? Why do we need to rush to complete the circle...
...high-backed chair upholstered in floral chintz. Painted darkly in homage to Manet and preceded by some of the most beautiful head studies in Cezanne's early work, it depicts the stunted Emperaire as a parody king, an "emperor," but with compassion; no mere caricatural impulse could account for the averted gaze and the great, sad, liquid eyes...
...Beijing as a reporter for the New York Times; years later, after working for papers in North America, she returned to China as a correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail. She was still in love with China, but not with the gangsters who ran it, and her account of the Tiananmen Square rebellion and massacre is not just good reporting; it is eloquent, hard-earned history, says TIME's John Skow. "High levels of both foolishness and good sense, in that order, are necessary for a really fine youthful memoir; on both counts Jan Wong's is a classic...