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Other notable users of U.S. shell companies: Viktor Bout, the notorious Russian arms trafficker; the Sinaloa drug-trafficking cartel; and Semion Mogilevich, the "brainy don" of Russian mafia dons, recently named on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. "Each of these examples involves the relatively rare instance in which law enforcement identified the perpetrator misusing the U.S. shell companies," senior Justice Department official, Jennifer Shasky, told a Senate panel recently. Added a senior Treasury official before the same hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee: "Years of research and law-enforcement investigations have conclusively demonstrated...
Carrie Fisher, better known to the metal-bikini enthusiasts among us as Princess Leia of Star Wars fame, writes in her recent memoir “Wishful Drinking” about her experience and struggles with drug use and bipolar disorder. One of the most memorable parts of the book happens around page 10, when Fisher first learns that bipolar disorder is the reason why most of her adult life has been so, as she puts it, “f*cked up.” The doctor, upon breaking the news, easily rattles off a list of other famous...
...only successful attempt at assimilating his rap background with rock music comes on “Ground Zero.” Two electric guitar lines produce a frenetic beat that is further energized by pounding drums and a screaming Wayne, who raps about the pitfalls of a bad drug trip. “How can I pray when I got nothing to kneel on?” Wayne asks, as he explains, “I’m so high that the ground is gone.” Wayne for once manages to match the fast moving metal-rock...
Extraordinary Measures, based on a book by Wall Street Journal reporter Geeta Anand, describes the mission of businessman John Crowley (Fraser) to find doctors who could develop a drug to treat Pompe disease, a rare genetic disorder that has affected two of his three children. A Harvard M.B.A., Crowley quits his job as a management consultant and moves his family to be near doctors working on a cure. He soon founds his own biotech company to steer and spur the doctors' research. (In the movie, the medics are compacted into the single, ornery person of Harrison Ford.) Do they find...
...northern Amazon rain forest, San Martin has a wilder reputation from its recent past: for years it was a bastion for the rebels of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and the much more violent Maoist fighters of the Shining Path. Hand in hand with subversion came drug trafficking, with the surrounding countryside perfect terrain for coca, from which cocaine is processed. (See pictures of what the world eats...