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...Clean Cash When Irish police tackled a possible I.R.A. money laundering operation last week, they had no idea that their suspects had been taking things so literally. But the raids in Cork and Dublin yielded dirty money - millions of British pounds stashed in compost bins - and wads of euros stuffed into a box of detergent. Authorities suspect that the recovered cash may be connected to the theft of $50 million from a Belfast bank in December - a robbery that officials blamed on the I.R.A., and that helped to kill the latest round of peace talks. $95,000 of that stolen...
...schoolboys," and this arc provides a fascinating glimpse at turn of the century domestic life. All of the guys try their hand at being a "schoolboy" but in classic comic style they all repeatedly get the "go home" treatment after screwing up through misunderstandings like removing the stove to clean it or accidentally teaching the parrot to swear in Japanese. The pleasures of the "Schoolboys" arc, and the entire book, come as much from its richly detailed minutiae as its historicity. In one sequence Charlie and Fred take a walk past the "Call" building (now Central Tower), through Union Square...
...presiding mystery was Stalin--cultivator of lemon trees and roses, author of sweet, private kindnesses, a man who proudly displayed his piles of fresh, clean underwear (which he boasted he changed every day!). After Hiroshima, Stalin reflected, "War is barbaric, but using the Abomb is a superbarbarity." This from the man whose Ukrainian famine killed some 10 million, the impresario of the Great Terror, the man who, after Russian soldiers had raped some 2 million women across East Prussia and Germany, asked, "What is so awful about [a soldier's] having...
Architects Goody, Clancy & Associates are planning to clean and restore the facade in coordination with the Cambridge Historical Commission...
...subject comes perhaps from Robert McHenry, chief of the (less and less popular—let’s keep our private interests straight) Encyclopedia Britannica. McHenry has compared Wikipedia to a public restroom: Such a facility may be obviously dirty, he has said, or it may look quite clean, but either way one has no real way of knowing who used it last...