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...investigation began after authorities in Cartagena, Colombia, seized 386 kg of cocaine hidden inside containers of frozen fish shipped by a company with a distribution center in Atlanta. Drug agents subsequently opened their phony office and offered to launder funds for suspected traffickers. As it played out, agents picked up drug funds in gym bags, luggage and boxes on the streets of such cities as New York, Dallas, Madrid and Rome. Then, with the help of black-market money changers in Colombia, the dollars were converted into pesos and deposited into the traffickers' Colombian accounts. But much to the dismay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laundered And Hung Out To Dry | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Unfortunately, there is very little in this compilation to rival "1959." Instead, there is a miasma of literary criticism and historical analysis: in both genres, Gordimer chooses summary over insight. In References: The Codes of Culture making fun of the title would be shooting fish in a barrel we come to the hardly surprising realization that There is no generic reader, out there; in Our Century, Gordimer is a long distance from shocking us with the information that The mushroom cloud still hangs over us, and the unbearably trite corollary question: will it be there as a bequest...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner Rests on Laurels | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...Fish bowl, former home to PTF (Patrick the Fish). Managing Editor Georgia N. Alexakis brought about the demise of this goldfish (a gift from her predecessor Andrew S. Chang) when she filled his bowl with cold, instead of lukewarm, water. GNA later replaced PTF with Andy and Warhol, named in FM's honor, but they died...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Annotated Crimson Newsroom | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...Unfortunately, there is very little in this compilation to rival 1959. Instead, there is a miasma of literary criticism and historical analysis: in both genres, Gordimer chooses summary over insight. In References: The Codes of Culturemaking fun of the title would be shooting fish in a barrel we come to the hardly surprising realization that There is no generic reader, out there; in Our Century, Gordimer is a long distance from shocking us with the information that The mushroom cloud still hangs over us, and the unbearably trite corollary question: will it be there as a bequest...

Author: By Joshua Perry, | Title: Nobel Winner Rests on Laurels | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...Clumsy was the first stage of this transition, an album that successfully drew upon a mix of artful designand precise production, and this trend reached its unfortunate apex in their latest release, Happiness Is a Not Fish That You Can Catch, a self-conscious album that substituted earnest glam-rock sheen for talented composition...

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, | Title: Peace on Earth. And Chickens | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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