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Making billions is only half the drug baron's task; the other is figuring out what to do with them. Trucks and cars carrying huge amounts of drug money continually cross into Mexico from the U.S. "They're bringing in tons of dope," says Thomas Constantine of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "There's no reason they can't take tons of money back the same way, in bulk cash." Of all the Mexican drug barons, Garcia Abrego was probably the cleverest at figuring out ways to introduce such tons of cash into the financial system without drawing attention...
...wasting a meal. Each time you go out to eat, you are essentially paying twice (after all, there is a well-balanced if boring meal waiting for you if you want it). After a while, everything starts to taste the same, whether it's kung-pao chicken, baron of beef or cusk (whatever the hell that is). And as we at Harvard know all too well, diversity is desirable...even in food. A person can handle only so much shake-and-bake...
...when he tries to pursue his fascination back in Paris, Miriam is at first reported to have been murdered, and then to have disappeared into the coils of a vast financial and political scandal. This involves the murder of the Baron Jacques de Reinach, an officer of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocaanique, whose Panama Canal project had failed in a miasma of debt and thousands of yellow fever deaths. Fully half of the French Chamber of Deputies had accepted bribes in the form of checks, which they had foolishly signed. They became known to delighted journalists as "chequards...
...Baron's set, like the rest of the production, is all the better for its pared down elegance. Her "wooden" benches blend with the uncharacteristically restrained earth tones of Carrie Benes' perfectly period costumes. Karen Eisner too, holds the lively orchestra in check, a task which has eluded past Agassiz conductors...
...Portrait of Carl Van Vechten on a red stool on a black rug on a red carpet; while in Portrait of Stieglitz, 1928, the shoe and cane (nothing else) of artist Charles Demuth enter from the left, and the gloved, ermine-cuffed hand of the preposterous New York dandy Baron de Meyer appears on the right...