Word: feds
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...Black Bible Chronicles (African American Family Press; $14.95) remains the most striking and the most controversial of the lot. The God here is one mean dude, sounding at times more like a gang leader than the Lord. Warning Noah of the Flood, he says, "I'm fed up with what's happenin' 'round here. These folks ain't what's happenin' anymore, so I'm gonna do what I gotta do, and end things once and for all. Man, I'm gonna blow the brothers clear outta the water...
...that it should not have granted Sheik Abdel Rahman a multiple-entry visa in 1990 since he had been on the watch list for suspected terrorists since 1987. A classified report by the department's inspector general concludes that it was issued by mistake. But Egyptian fears will be fed by one discovery: sources have told Time that the U.S. diplomat who approved the sheik's visa application in Khartoum was a CIA officer working under cover in the consular office when the sheik's case came up. A CIA spokesman says the agency has found no record...
...Travel: This can get expensive. But if you're really fed up, Omni Travel in Harvard Square can set you up with a round trip ticket to Alaska. Leave today to fly to Anchorage and return Monday, you'll pay $1,106 each way. It's cheaper if you reserve in advance...
...that "many Americans are generally angry at large conglomerates and believe that a corporation can afford to pay a few injury claims." The quest for money can become unfathomably ugly. To promote their claims of finding ground class in Gerber baby food during the 1986 scare, some parents purposely fed slivers of glass to their children and even cut their kids' bottoms with shards...
That drive was underscored last month when the Federal Reserve gave Chemical the green light to sell and underwrite corporate bonds. Normally banks are barred from such investment-banking activity under the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. But the Fed cited a loophole, and its decision allows certain banks to take on Wall Street directly in wooing business borrowers...