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Additionally, at least one student organization, Bhumi, has come to serve as an unofficial conduit for finding internships in Asia. The group works with non-governmental organizations to match Harvard students with internships abroad. According to Waters, no fewer than six of last year's Weissman interns, herself included, found their internships through Bhumi...
...content and gay characters--increasingly common accessories on shows aimed at trendy young adults--serve as a sort of coolness shorthand, bestowing hipness on their shows and audience, serving as a conduit to cred for the majority group, just as racial minorities have in the past. From Norman Mailer's White Negro we've gone to the Gay Hetero. As a side benefit, these characters allow networks to put affluent white boys on the air and call it diversity. (Indeed, the elderly animated pair Wally and Gus on the WB's Mission Hill are notable not so much for making...
DIED. JUDITH EXNER, 65, rumored former mistress of John F. Kennedy and Mob boss Sam Giancana; of breast cancer; in Duarte, Calif. A sometime Rat Pack associate, Exner claimed to have been a conduit between Kennedy and Giancana...
...Feds suspect that Benex served as a conduit for capital fleeing Russia, either legitimate or criminal profits, and want to know whether U.S. banks facilitated foreign theft. When the Republic National Bank sent an investigator out to an address in Queens that some of the Benex funds had been wired to, it found nothing there at all. "We have a company that exists only to collect dollars from Russia for transmission elsewhere," says an investigator. "Who the hell knows who's on the other end of the line...
Horowitz's slander wouldn't matter much if he spoke only for himself. But for the past three decades, Horowitz, 60, has been a conduit through which extreme political ideas gain access to the mainstream. During a previous incarnation as a leftist radical in the '70s, he was the editor who put a picture of a burning bank building on the cover of Ramparts magazine with the line, "The students who burned the Bank of America may have done more toward saving the environment than all the teach-ins put together." And the guy who continued to raise thousands...