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...nearly doubled from 1996 to 2000, according to the latest available figures from the General Accounting Office, paving the way for more and more private firms to move in. "When a custodial parent comes to us, they have on average not been getting money for four years," says David Conder, president of the national association of private collection agencies. "We bring money into the household. Very rarely do we take...
Many disagree with the USGA's stance, from Wall Street analysts to Scotland's Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, the governing body for the sport throughout the world, which okayed the club. Says A.G. Edwards analyst Tim Conder to the USGA: "Hey, guys, wake up and focus on growing the game...
Japanese intellectuals discussed French poetry and English novels, an education minister proposed English as the new national language, and Japanese counts, marquesses and barons waltzed with their wives at the Deer Cry Pavilion, a pretentious Italianate building, designed by a British architect named Josiah Conder. All this in the name of "civilization," that is, Western civilization. To be civilized was to be modern, and to be modern was to be Western. And this extraordinary new hybrid culture - not widely shared in less privileged Japanese circles, it is true - was at least partly meant to elicit positive Western views of Japan...
Free Shipment. As American and French narcotics agents pieced together the story, Desist, who owned the apartment that Conder rented while he was stationed at Orléans, persuaded the warrant officer to bring the heroin into the U.S. for a $10,000 courier's fee-small change compared to the worth of the package. The drug, packed in 190 half-kilogram plastic bags, was secreted inside Conder's home freezer before the Army shipped it home with his other belongings. Soon after it arrived at Fort Benning in November, Le Franc tried to make the prearranged pickup...
There, both were arrested last week, along with two Frenchwomen and a Brazilian national who were also charged with complicity. Meanwhile, agents had swooped down on Conder's trailer home in Columbus, arrested him and recovered the hot heroin. In Miami Beach, agents picked up Dio, who a few days earlier had flown to New York and lunched with Le Franc. As for Chevalier Desist, he was lodged in the Orléans jail, and faced the prospect of extradition and a different kind of vie back home...