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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Assuming the alias of John Hull, Stevens sets about his task, scaring himself with his facility at selling the product. Rapidly ascending through the drug ring hierarchy, he begins to work with David Jason (Jeff Goldblum) a suburban attorney with high aspirations. Together, they hit the big time, and Stevens...

Author: By Danielle A. Phillip, | Title: Digging Deep Into the Drug War | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

Marita Juse, 48, of Burbank, Calif., will be sentenced later this month for embezzling more than $1 million from Pinkerton's, the oldest and second largest U.S. security firm. A fugitive on tax-fraud charges, Juse used an alias when Pinkerton's accounting division hired her. Obtaining computer codes, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Thugs in Uniform | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

To plow through the literature of Afrocentrism is to enter a world of claims about technological innovation so absurd that they lie beyond satire, like those made for Soviet science in Stalin's time. Afrocentrists have at one time or another claimed that Egyptians, alias Africans, invented the wet-cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fraying Of America | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

Simon & Schuster is challenging a New York law requiring that all royalties due a criminal for his story be put in an escrow fund for his victims. The law--known as the "Son of Sam" law in reference to the alias used by serial killer David Berkowitz--is the oldest...

Author: By Jonathan B. Vessey, | Title: No Reward for Murder | 10/12/1991 | See Source »

I recalled the scene last week, when Gamsakhurdia became the first popularly elected president of a Soviet republic. Georgia has much to fear from diehard imperialists in Moscow, but there is another, internal menace -- a growling presence in the garden. The republic is cursed by its own demography. In that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

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