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...stiffer laws favored by the commission might infringe upon a citizen's legitimate right to privacy in banking matters. Some critics in Congress charge that the commission's definition of laundering is too broad and could cast suspicion over large cash-banking transactions of all kinds. Arthur Brill, a commission staffer, dismisses those fears. He claims, "You have nothing to be concerned about if you're not taking shopping bags full of money to the counter...
...commission will have scored a victory, Brill says, if bank presidents tell their people, "We're not going to take any more of the Mob's money." That kind of attitude by the entire financial community could have a powerful effect. Says Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City and the commission's chairman: "Without the ability to freely utilize its ill-gotten gains, the underworld will have been dealt a crippling blow. Money laundering is the lifeblood of organized crime...
...book is written in the novel-like, no-attribution form that Woodward and Bernstein did much to popularize--and for which they took much flak--in The Final Days, their account of the end of the Nixon Administration. As American Lawyer editor Steven Brill has written, the style irritates formalist journalists who cringe if no "he recalled" or "she added" appears after an incident...
...page works effectively when it is spoken. Nevertheless, it is our charter to honor each story's integrity while adapting it to another medium." The material is recorded at a New York City studio by a team of nine broadcast journalists, including Peter Thomas, Mike Baker and Fran Brill. Says Lande...
...over troubled waters, is masterly enough to span that gap. Any record that encompasses doo-wop, Philip Glass and the fragile orchestrations of the French film composer Georges Delerue is bold by any standard. Anyone who writes lyrics that sound like the poet Ted Hughes on sabbatical in the Brill Building rates a very close listen indeed. Simon's musical agility and lyrical literacy may seem suspect to an audience that wants its rock rougher. He irrefutably proves that hard edges run a poor second to deep thought. Hearts and Bones explores the gap between thought and feeling. Think...