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...Board, students who were caught breaking rules were summoned to University Hall, where one of a bevy of assistant deans would hear their side of the story and then present the case to the entire body. Students frequently complained that they had not previously met the deans who dealt with them...
...France. By his own account he was a refugee from the revolutionary government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, which confiscated his businesses in Iran, yet he later became a trusted friend and kitchen adviser to Mir Hussein Mousavi, Prime Minister in the Khomeini government. Some U.S. officials who have dealt with Ghorbanifar praise him highly. Says Michael Ledeen, adviser to the Pentagon on counterterrorism: "He is one of the most honest, educated, honorable men I have ever known." Others call him a liar who, as one puts it, could not tell the truth about the clothes he is wearing...
...edges of this huge market are the free-lancers. They buy anywhere % they can, sometimes from Communist countries. Nor are they often choosy about their customers: some seem to have dealt with both sides in the Iran-Iraq war. Since 1980, that conflict has put a huge prop under a sagging business. The arms trade has been falling off in recent years, partly because world weapons pipelines are full and partly because governments are increasingly crowding the individual dealers out of what sales opportunities are left. But the demand from the Persian Gulf combatants for weapons to use against each...
Everyone I spoke with had a Mexican maid and gardner. Most people dealt with Mexicans only in their capacity as hired hands. And so the Mexicans on the street were regarded as a subservient lower class...
...unless modified by state governments, trigger billions of dollars in additional state taxes. What to do with the windfall is already causing consternation and debate in state legislatures across the country. Predicts Bob Griffin, speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives: "This will be the hottest issue we've dealt with in a number of years...