Word: businessman
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...black bears in American forests and a mysterious murder in Brooklyn? Answer: the burgeoning global trade in scarce animal parts, some used for exotic medical purposes. Police think that a theft of bear gallbladders may have been behind the killing last week of Lee Haeng Gu, a Korean-born businessman who was found in his apartment with his throat slashed. Lee apparently conducted a lucrative international trade in bear parts and kept his wares at home in three freezers...
...slightly" acquainted with the President. But Bath vehemently denies White's accusations. "I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency," he says, describing White's portrayal as a "fantasy." Even so, Bath, while insisting he is nothing more than a "small, obscure businessman," is associated with some of the most powerful figures in the U.S. and Middle East. Private records show, and associates confirm, that Bath is a "representative" for several immensely wealthy Saudi families, an unusual position for any small-time Texas businessman...
...sketch called "Crossover King," for example, Leguizamo satirizes Hispanics' desire to be accepted into the mainstream by playing a Latin who transforms himself into a pseudo-samurai businessman. Eyes squinting behind thick spectacles, Leguizamo lectures members of an imaginary Hispanic audience on how they too "can be Latino-free" if they just work hard enough at being Japanese. "Our computer graphics project that after only six years in the crossover program, Tito could become Toshino," he explains, "the quiet, well-dressed, manicured, well-groomed, somewhat anal-retentive overachiever who is ready to enter the job market at the drop...
More fireworks are expected to erupt on Capitol Hill this week as a Senate subcommittee hears evidence in the B.C.C.I. scandal. Witnesses ranging from CIA and State Department officials to Georgia businessman Bert Lance and a former top B.C.C.I. executive will drop one bombshell after another, say staff members on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations. The most explosive testimony will focus on which heads of state took bribes from the bank, as well as on the role of Washington attorney Clark Clifford and what he knew about his Washington bank's connections to B.C.C.I. Clifford...
With about 60 parties fielding candidates, the run-up to Poland's first truly independent parliamentary elections next weekend has been chaotic. But at least emigre businessman Stanislaw Tyminski, founder of Party X, won't be there to kick the electorate around anymore. Earlier this month he flew home to Canada, disheartened because Party X, which claims 4 million supporters, was denied a place on the national ballot on account of signatures on its qualifying petitions that were discovered to be false...