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Abedi, who left B.C.C.I. last year after a stroke that followed a 1988 heart transplant, built his business on careful attention to the needs of top-drawer customers. In the bank's early days, B.C.C.I. officials in London could be roused in the middle of the night to make good on visiting sheiks' gambling losses. Abedi cultivated the friendship of former Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and other Third World leaders. "He was a collector of people," says a Pakistani journalist who has followed Abedi. "He used Zia as a calling card...
Kristina M. Song '92 said she had $500 in cash stolen from her desk drawer last Wednesday...
...Apparently thefts had been going on for two weeks before my money was stolen," she said. "If we had a notice in our mailboxes, I wouldn't have had 500 dollars in my drawer...
Anyway, I got ready for my date. I wore that new flannel shirt and fished through the drawer for the clean pair of socks I keep for just such occasions. I even did my Frank Burns imitation and checked for nose hairs in the mirror. I left nothing to chance...
...going either; it was twice rejected by the New York Film Festival. Could it have been the picture's grim gray palette that put the festival off? Or the man with seared skin? Or the snakelike creatures in the radiator? Or the hideous mutant baby in the bureau drawer...