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...pure heroes. "For a lot of people my age, their first political memory is Watergate," says Jonathan Cohn, a 22- year-old assistant editor at the American Prospect, a liberal quarterly. "That's not exactly a great foot to get started off on, where your President is a crook and the government is corrupt...
...years. He plans to counsel listeners on how to avoid the city's rampant street crime, and he may also throw in some practical tips to visitors on coddling a queasy stomach or dealing with recalcitrant taxi drivers. "Some people think it is in bad taste to allow a crook to do such a thing," said the former Great Train Robber, who hopes to meet soon with Rio police to discuss his radio debut on Eco Radio...
That's like protesting because of his hair color, way his teeth might crook, or the presence of some unknown birthmark. Like his sexual preference, none of these things make any difference in Gomes' ability...
...public concerns under his control. The money is missing and unaccounted for. This most unsocialist of acts prompted the Mirror's conservative archrival, Rupert Murdoch's Sun, to run banner headlines in Thursday's edition asking cheekily, MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE BIGGEST CROOK...
While the Maxwells managed, by hook or by crook, to raise enough to meet a $750 million payment due in October 1992, they conceded they would be unable to meet a $1.3 billion obligation due in October 1994. Unsatisfied creditors, however, may be able to go after the Maxwell family fortune. According to a leaked report by Bankers Trust and Coopers & Lybrand, Maxwell assets are estimated to exceed liabilities by about $350 million...