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Abramoff moved money in numerous ways-not just to cheat his clients but also to pay for brazen junkets and cloak the ethically (and legally) dubious machinery of his enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Raise Cash... Disguise Its Sources... And Buy Influence | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

...called The Apprentice, about a young man named Setsuo in turn-of-the-century Japan who becomes enmeshed in a web of crime, political drama, and, of course, love. Of all the characters in the book, it's the mysterious object of Setsuo's affections-"the girl in the cloak"-who seems to parallel Libby most now. Publishers Weekly said in its review of The Apprentice that "her actions, history and motives remain ambiguous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Cheney's Cheney" | 10/28/2005 | See Source »

...invisible presence. With this simple gesture, Stollichnaya had combined the spirit of Halloween and Camp Sunshine. If there were a Guinness record for heart, he probably would have broken it. Deciding to burn the lantern at both ends, we returned to the Common under the cloak of nightfall, only to find a chain gang of burly men tossing the leftover jackos into the back of a flatbed truck, like gypsies pursuing the remains of the dead. But as painful as the sight was, we knew somehow that Halloween would live on. And for that, we thank brave Stollichnaya...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Bell Lap: Spirit O’ the Lantern | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...have killed himself because he feared that his government was setting him up in the murder of Hariri, with whom he had been on good terms; that he was a scapegoat sacrificed to address possible accusations against Syria in the report; or that he was killed, under the convenient cloak of the U.N. probe, to eliminate a rival to President Bashar Assad. The last theory, says Syria watcher and history professor Joshua Landis, "is the conclusion everyone is jumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In Damascus: Who Pulled The Trigger? | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...After Mubarak's speech at Abdeen Palace, a man who told me he was a teacher discreetly slipped me a tiny piece of paper and then walked back into the crowd, like a spy in a cloak and dagger operation. "Pass this message," it read in scribbled red ink. "There is no democracy in Egypt and there is no dignity for the human being in this country. Those people inside the rally own Egypt, but those outside are the powerless. Signed, An Egyptian Citizen." Such clandestine protests are no longer all Mubarak has to contend with, however. Even his very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democracy Slowly Comes to Egypt | 9/6/2005 | See Source »

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