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...just got a federal court in San Francisco to compel Visa International to disgorge credit-card records of U.S. citizens in 30 cash coves such as Bermuda and the Caymans. It will likely try to identify the cardholders through U.S. merchants where the cards were used. The agency, which earlier secured access to the logs of MasterCard and American Express, is looking for buried treasure overseas--an estimated $70 billion in unpaid taxes. The theory is that much more of it has flowed offshore in recent years, oiled by Internet technology and emboldened by a popular view that...
...When the possibility arose that Arafat might be killed in the ruins of his headquarters, there was undisguised panic among Arab governments. What they dreaded also greatly alarmed their European counterparts, as well as the U.S. and even the Israelis themselves: uncontrollable mass demonstrations in Arab capitals that might compel reluctant rulers to try to attack Israel in turn...
...string quartet takes with a piece of classical music, you can't fault its sexually charged performances for being off key. Off color, yes. A bond concert is a melodic lap dance: the four sylphs do energetic things with their orchestral instruments, not to mention their hips, that would compel Stradivari to order an exorcism. One does not learn to straddle a cello that way at a conservatory...
...correlation between undergraduates’ perception of the administration’s intentions and future financial support from those same undergraduates turned alumni. Two, giving to educational and other charitable causes is and should be a competitive market, like just about everything else in our society. These reasons compel me to support an administration like the one at Princeton far more than the people running Harvard...
...that time Rogge and the other members of the Olympic committee were aware that the Canadian Olympic Association had filed an application before the court of Arbitration for Sport, a non-Olympic body, asking the court to hear its request for a second gold medal and to compel the pairs judges to testify. The court agreed to hear the case on Friday. That threatened to carry the dispute to a forum beyond the control of the committee and the I.S.U. On Friday morning the nine-member I.O.C. board ratified the I.S.U. plan by a 7-1 vote. China opposed...