Word: crooking
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...Still, Italians are likely to barely notice the latest courtroom tussle. In a country where guilt is always relative, politicians tend to stick around through even the thickest mud. And most voters have long ago made up their minds that Berlusconi is either a crook or the victim of blood-thirsty prosecutors who want to usurp power from a democratically elected leader. The timing, so close to Berlusconi?s showdown with former European Commission President Romano Prodi, may actually help Berlusconi by convincing some of the relatively few undecided voters that there is indeed a political motive for the investigations...
...might suppose. In a number of the most famous British heists - notably the Brinks Mat bullion raid at Heathrow airport in 1983, when thieves took gold worth $45 million - police and underworld lore insists that the gangs had no idea of the value of their haul. For a crook, an unexpectedly large payday can be as much a curse as a blessing. You have to do something with stuff you've stolen, and if you've stolen a lot of it, your problems multiply. More people know that there's hot money or goods around, so security is compromised; that...
...might suppose. In a number of the most famous British heists--notably the Brinks Mat bullion raid at Heathrow airport in 1983, when thieves took gold worth $45 million--police and underworld lore insist that the gangs had no idea of the value of their haul. For a crook, an unexpectedly large payday can be as much a curse as a blessing. You have to do something with the stuff you've stolen, and if you've stolen a lot of it, your problems multiply. More people know there is hot money or goods around, so security is compromised...
...took Barbara Hustedt Crook an awfully long time to get around to writing her first musical. She started last year, shortly before her 60th birthday. Her friend and collaborator, Robert Strozier, waited even longer; he's 65. It's not that they didn't have the creative chops for the job. The two have spent their careers writing and editing in New York City, and Crook has a background in performing, singing and piano. But creating a musical always felt just out of reach--until...
...Somehow I have a confidence I didn't have before," says Crook. "I find that my brain makes leaps it didn't make so easily. I can hear my inner voice and trust instincts and hunches in ways I didn't used...