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...worried that Laurent Kabila, the rebel he helped to the country's presidency, was not making quick enough progress in restoring the ruined country. The meeting had all the ceremony of a summit, but it was really an opportunity for Museveni to give his friend some discreet but blunt advice. "They must start to move here," said Museveni afterward. "People expect to see things happening. Kabila wants to help his people, so that's half the battle won. We can help with the rest...
...wanted, he would worm his way toward them, through charm, intrusion and lies, traversing divergent worlds to possess or, as it turns out, to destroy. A flamboyant presence in Hillcrest, San Diego's gay district, he was also once "employed" by a member of Gamma Mu, the exclusive and discreet fraternity of rich gay men. Even as he mingled with closeted military men at San Diego's naval base, he knew how to deal drugs: give a client a first batch free and make them feel welcome to more, at a price. Cunanan had an astonishing range of knowledge...
ZURICH, Switzerland: Swiss banks today published multi-page ads in major newspapers from New York to London to Moscow, listing WWII-era depositors in the hopes of reuniting holocaust survivors and their relatives with long-lost money. The lists are an unprecedented step for the famously discreet Swiss banks, and certainly a nifty PR move, coinciding today with the Swiss Bankers Association's announcement that it had found $15 million more that may have belonged to Holocaust victims. Ex-Fed chairman Paul Volcker, who heads an international body charged with tracking missing Holocaust assets, says a new list...
...then, of course, there are the Shakers, who reached America in 1774 but whose celebrated furniture attained its apogee of design between 1820 and 1850. "Hands to work," said a Shaker motto, "hearts to God." Work was prayer, and nothing "worldly," meaning ostentatious or decorative, was allowed, beyond a discreet molding to the top of a cabinet or an elegant taper to a turned...
...sure what they did," said Daily News Editor Yen Cheong. "We did advise them to be discreet...