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...their contracts. Since the late 1990s, a handful of websites--among them www.leasetrader.com www.leasetrading.com and www.swapalease.com--have helped facilitate such transactions. You'll pay to dump a lease, but the price can be thousands less than you would owe if you turned the lease in early to a dealer. Meanwhile, buyers can pick up some sweet rides for hundreds less than their normal cost--with short-term contracts and no down payment...
...summer of 2001, he has worked as an Iran expert for Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's third ranking official, a neoconservative long in favor of tougher measures against Iran. In 2001 Franklin and a Pentagon colleague were dispatched to Rome for a meeting with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who had been a key figure in the 1980s' Iran-contra scandal. They were seeking intelligence on Iran from him. But the CIA has long considered Ghorbanifar unreliable, and the Bush Administration later cut off the contacts...
...story so full of suffering? Well, maybe it is. For one thing, the Freedom Center is in many respects still the thing it professes not to be, a museum of slavery. Its largest feature is a slave cabin, rescued from a Kentucky farm once owned by a slave dealer, that lets visitors imagine themselves in the cramped space where dozens of slaves were crammed. And by far the longest of the center's display areas is a sequence of galleries devoted to the history of slave labor, the miseries of the Middle Passage across the Atlantic from Africa...
...works come from a singular collection amassed by Dutch philatelist Wim van der Bijl and his associate Ronald de Groen. As a stamp dealer participating in international fairs, the Utrecht-based Van der Bijl befriended a North Korean dealer who later switched from stamps to art. On a visit to Pyongyang in early 2003, Van der Bijl's contact offered him some souvenir landscapes from around Asia, but the Dutchman turned them down, expressing interest instead in the propaganda posters he had seen around the city. "But I was told those were not for export," recalls Van der Bijl...
...ALSO A BIG ART COLLECTOR AND DEALER. PRICES FOR IMPRESSIONISTS AND MODERN MASTERS ARE GOING OFF THE CHARTS. WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOU? IS THIS STUPID-MONEY TIME AGAIN...