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...Solitude, this early effort in journalism provided a lesson in the bizarre effects that telling a tale can have on characters and author alike. His attempt to reconstruct Velasco's experiences as factually as possible assumed a life of its own; the sailor who braved exposure and sharks fell afoul of the words of his story. And words, paradoxically, rescued Velasco's adventure from oblivion. When these pieces first appeared in book form, in Spanish in 1970, Garcia Marquez noted, "I find it depressing that the publishers are not so much interested in the merit of the story...
...sterile." Marcos strongly identified himself with economic and social development, land reform and centralized government. Nonetheless, he soon began to fall back into the tradition of Tammany Hall-style politics that, as one American official wryly notes, is "part of the U.S. legacy in the Philippines." He also ran afoul of a simmering separatist insurgency among the Moros, an Islamic minority in the south of the heavily Roman Catholic country, and felt the first stirrings of the fledgling Communist New People's Army...
...ripples there were. Within the first few weeks of the semester a chorus of groans could be heard from undergraduates who worried that they might soon have to affix their signatures to papers and exams and perhaps even report a peer who has run afoul of the rules. The criticisms ranged from the insipid--that it was nostalgia for his alma mater, honor-bound Princeton that motivated Spence to undertake the study--to the pragmatic--that if the system ain't broke don't fix it--to the serious--no one wants to bust a buddy. Surely, such a cosmopolitan...
...considering withdrawal of his citizenship because he holds office in a foreign government. Should this happen, Kahane believes that his chances of getting a visa to visit the U.S. would be improved if he drops his link with the J.D.L., which has in the past run afoul of American law enforcement officials...
Even some of the most respected U.S. banks have run afoul of the law. Bank of Boston paid a $500,000 fine in February for failing to report $1.2 billion in shipments of cash to and from financial institutions overseas. That raised suspicions that the bank had become involved, perhaps unwittingly, in money laundering, an activity in which legitimate businesses help criminals exchange suspiciously large amounts of cash for easily negotiable checks or other financial instruments. The Treasury Department is now investigating 140 U.S. banks for not reporting all their large cash transactions...