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These funds, which were established by Simpson's financial adviser, Leroy ("Skip") Taft, back in the early 1980s, cannot be touched by outsiders even if Simpson files for bankruptcy. Yet they can easily be turned into cash for Simpson's own use prior to retirement. He can borrow from his retirement funds, and has already done so on several occasions. Simpson can use these funds to buy real estate, something he has done repeatedly in the past. And the pensions begin to pay off their untouchable annuities five years from now, when Simpson turns...
...neighbor, returning a lost object and giving charity to the poor. I remember what the rabbis used to tell me in the Orthodox yeshiva (school for higher Jewish education) in Israel that I attended for a year. One rabbi there explained to me once how it was wrong to borrow someone's pen and paper without asking permission. He said that someone who takes something without asking first is committing an act of selfishness. This rabbi told us that our job in life was to be considerate, not selfish. He told us that deep belief in the Torah means being...
...buzzphrases these days, they probably get them from TV, like everyone else. One week on Friends, when David Schwimmer's all-thumbs buddies offered to baby-sit his infant son, he said, "I don't think so"; an hour later, Jerry Seinfeld told an unctuous magician who asked to borrow him for a trick, "I don't think...
...independent counsel. And Thompson has suggested that there still may be questions worth raising about how the White House handled the firing of its travel office or how it gathered FBI files on prominent Republicans. With so many possible transgressions for him to probe, Thompson may want to borrow his favorite line as Die Hard 2's unflappable Dulles Airport chief air-traffic controller: "Stack 'em, pack 'em and rack...
...borrow the three tenors' war cry, "Vinceeeeeero...