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...have a wonderful conversation--at late-night rates, to boot. Finally, everything is peachy keen, until you hang up. Then the cycle begins anew...
Nevertheless, there is something you can do to mark your achievement. Quietly and without pomp, in the wee hours of the night, boot up your computer and add the fellowship to your resume...
...drought in Europe. A company would need a lot of nerve to launch a pricey new board right now, but France's Salomon is plunging ahead with a ski that the trade magazine Snow Country called the "most talked-about product to hit the ski market since the plastic boot." A leading manufacturer of ski boots and bindings, Salomon spent six years and $40 million developing its first ski ever. The result is the S9000 Equipe, a superfast, lightweight model that is winning raves from the ski press...
Sawywer is pro-choice, but supports a program of much tougher punishments, including the death penalty and a "boot camp" style prison camp for drug users and first offenders to ease prison overcrowding. The more conservative Carbone is anti-abortion and supports the death penalty for first-degree murderers...
...Genovese family is New York based, its influence has few geographical boundaries. Smaller crime families from Cleveland to Pittsburgh to New England answer to the Genovese gang in various ways. So did Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa of Detroit, who vanished without a trace in 1975 after pledging to boot his Mob sponsors out of the union. At the time, the family was emerging as a global trader of sorts, in one case allegedly trying to pass $950 million in counterfeit and stolen securities to the Vatican's bank in Rome. In a recent operation, the family shipped counterfeit watches, wallets...