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...arraignment. The other, Mohammed A. Salameh, an illegal immigrant from Jordan, had rented the van that apparently carried the bomb into the Trade Center garage. In a scene that no thriller novelist would dare dream up, Salameh was arrested as he tried to get his $400 rental deposit back...
...account for what looked like his extraordinary stupidity in renting a van under his own name, presenting a valid New York driver's license with a real and traceable phone number and, instead of disappearing after the bombing, calling attention to himself by repeatedly trying to recover the deposit. Such behavior seemed to indicate that the plot was a wildly amateurish -- though horribly successful -- operation...
...fund trade group. "Managers need time to plot their investment strategies." The steep growth of mutual funds, which reached a record value of $1.7 trillion last year (see chart), began in earnest in 1989. As interest rates began dropping, profit-hungry investors moved away from low yielding certificates of deposit and treasury bonds to where the action is. Most of the enormous outflow wound up in professionally managed pools of securities, where annual returns of 25% or more are not uncommon...
Once the participants entered the Union's Parlor B, no talking was allowed. Students rotated around seven stations, where they had to deposit a paycheck, report a crime, make travel arrangements and convey other complex information--all by means other than speech...
...East Wing hand-off was, if anything, more graceful than the transfer of power in the West Wing. Barbara Bush is intent on turning over the White House in get-back-the-security-deposit condition. After embracing the new tenant, Mrs. Bush pointed out the idiosyncrasies of the property, including the press corps that comes free with the four-year lease. "Avoid this crowd like the plague," she said. "And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you." Replied Mrs. Clinton: "I know that feeling already...