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...Afew years ago, Chris Devonshire-Ellis, a Beijing-based business and tax consultant, was in the bar at Pyongyang's Koryo Hotel when he ran into another foreigner. "The guy's name was Vlad," Devonshire-Ellis says. "He'd come from Moscow on a train to sell tractors to the North Koreans. He had all these guys around him. Turns out, they were his team of bodyguards. The North Koreans paid him in cash--1 million in U.S. dollars--and that's why he needed the bodyguards. He was comfortable doing business with the North Koreans. He said they always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Risky Business | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

Travers also said he was upset at the fact thathis boss, Jim Sarafin, has great control over manyemployees even though he has been working asassistant manager of the parking office for just afew months...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guards Likely to Approve Deal With University | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Less history--but sometimes more fun--awaitsthe residents of the Union dorms. Located just afew feet behind what used to be the first-yeardining hall, these dorms are converted apartmentbuildings with reputations for wildness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorms Come in Variety of Shapes, Sizes | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

With a minute to go the Crimson killed theclock playing catch. Harvard could have gone for afew last shots but decided not to push its luck...

Author: By Christine Haggerty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Lax Edges Columbia, 6-5 | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Kees Heil, a scientist from the Netherlands,also hoped to see the library. But, after seeingWidener's categoric restrictions and spending afew moments peering through the windows, he turnedaway...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Signs Confuse Local Widener Users | 3/24/1999 | See Source »

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