Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paper trail provided other links. Combing through thousands of visa applications, French authorities found forms submitted by Vakili and Azadi. Their applications had been endorsed by a French electronics company called Syfax. Officials of the company said they had intervened at the request of Iranian businessman Massoud Hendi, a nephew of the Ayatullah Khomeini and a former Paris bureau chief for Iranian television...
Bruguiere believes that he has established a final link between the killing and Tehran in the person of Gholam Hossein Shoorideh Chirazi Nejad. A well- traveled Iranian businessman with high-level government connections, Shoorideh prevailed upon a visiting Swiss businessman to help two friends get visas by having his company invite them as guests. One of the "friends" was Nasser Ghasmi Nejad, whose real purpose was apparently to rendezvous with Azadi and shepherd him back to Tehran. Shoorideh and Nejad thus joined the list of six alleged co-conspirators, including Azadi, Boyerahmadi, Sheikhattar and Edipsoy, who are to be tried...
...that I think black anti-Semitism is inconsequential. Not only should blacks be publicly denouncing Farrakhan's anti-Semitism and homophobia, they ought to be mobilizing every black church, radio station, newspaper, politician, businessman, entertainer, sports hero and media star to confront and ostracize anti-Semitism and homophobia in the African-American community...
...future dead white male, Updike makes mischief with a changing world that unsettles his sensibilities and excites his imagination. In a spasm of Latin American magic realism, he turns Isabel into a black lesbian and Tristao into a white businessman. A tirelessly inventive tour de force, this off-color romance may not add much to Updike's stature as a man of letters, but it is a spectacular example of what happens when a writer with talent to burn burns...
Clintonite cleared of taking bribe from Vietnamese businessman...