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...factories that are said to be located in the Rajin area on the northeast coast of North Korea are allegedly run or financed by crime syndicates from Taiwan. One of these factories, equipped with second-hand equipment from China, has allegedly counterfeited such brands as Mild Seven, Dunhill and Benson & Hedges. According to the report, another factory in Rajin employed 120 people and was run by Chinese supervisors and technicians; North Korean officials were allegedly paid a "tax" on the factory's cigarettes, which were then exported in fishing vessels owned by a Taiwan crime syndicate. Indeed, the report claims...
Thomas R. Benson ’09, who said he is considering a professional career in politics, wrote in an e-mail that the uproar over Kennedy’s Owl ties would not discourage him from joining a final club. “The attack on Kennedy was unmerited,” Benson wrote...
...contrary to what should happen as the brain ages so the researchers concluded that the meditation was responsible for this physical effect. “When compared to age match controls, the people who weren’t evoking the relaxation response had thinner cortexes,” commented Benson. The group that was tested ranged from 25-50-year-olds who meditated lightly—approximately 40 minutes a day. The implications of these findings could be very important, said Lazar and Benson. After completing this study, Lazar said she believes, “The effects of meditation...
SOAP SEASON 4 Long beforeDesperate Housewives, ABC took soap-opera conventions over the top. Racy for its time (for ours, even) the 1977-81 series features pitch-perfect work from Katherine Helmond, Richard Mulligan and Robert Guillaume, who reprised his sarcastic- butler role on Benson. The outrageous final season offers story lines involving a Latin American revolutionary, a possibly alien baby and a kung-fu fortress. Meanwhile, Billy Crystal, as one of TV's first gay characters, begins channeling the spirit of a 90-year-old Jewish man--which, come to think of it, he's been doing ever...
...city embraces its guests despite the losses, the most contentious issue will arise. Why would the Hornets return to New Orleans, where the team ranked last in attendance even before Katrina's economic devastation? Critics have accused the owner of the NFL's Saints, Tom Benson, of trying to desert New Orleans for San Antonio or Los Angeles. "The goal is to go back," insists Hornets owner Shinn, who has already moved the franchise once, from Charlotte, N.C., to the Crescent City three years ago in search of better returns. Can he guarantee it? "Will you promise to me there...