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Jaime Morales was a wealthy Nicaraguan banker??in the 1980s when Daniel Ortega stole his six-bedroom house. Ortega, who was then Nicaragua's President, called it a justified "confiscation" on behalf of the Marxist revolution that he and his Sandinista Front were leading. Morales became a leader of the U.S.-backed contra army that waged a civil war with the Sandinistas. That conflict killed 30,000 people and led to Ortega's ouster in a 1990 election--after which he paid Morales for the house...
...bonhomie, he has succeeded in whatever he tried, including four distinctly diverse careers. To French politics he has brought the cultivation of a classics scholar (including 10,000 lines of French poetry that he can quote from memory), the logic of a legal expert and the savvy of a banker???all of which roles, without seeming to have prepared overly hard for them, he has played...
...smaller towns the scheme of life is not complete without the local unit banker???men like Gallic Harris of Franklin, Ky. Benign-faced, with a smile for everyone, an optimist in all emergencies, family and business, adviser to every patron and friend, trustee of every church or hospital loan, executor when men died ?dedicating their souls to God and their estates to the banker! He befriended a poor foreign peddler with a pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When...
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