Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Island Trees Union Free School District on Long Island, N.Y., in a case still being contested by former students in court, banned eleven books as "anti-American, antiChristian, anti-Semitic and just plain filthy." Later they discovered that the banished included two Pulitzer prizewinners: Bernard Malamud's The Fixer and Oliver La Farge's Laughing Boy. For censors to ban books they have never read is commonplace. For them to deny that they are censoring is even more so. Said Attorney George W. Lipp Jr., announcing plans to continue the legal fight for the Island Trees board: "This...
...have been convicted in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Michigan. But the New York case is by far the most serious, for some of the nation's finest and most famous riders have been named in court testimony. Jockey José Amy, 26 -like Feliciano an admitted fixer who struck a deal with prosecutors in exchange for testifying-claimed that eleven jockeys knew of the schemes, including three riders who were in the Preakness last weekend. The trio: Jacinto Vasquez, jockey of the Kentucky Derby-winning filly Genuine Risk; Angel Cordero Jr., a two-time Derby winner who rode...
...militants seized the U.S. embassy, a number of back-channel messages have flowed between the Iranian and U.S. governments. Most often the messengers have been Swiss diplomats. But last week a flood of light on the back channels disclosed the activities of a collection of surprising messengers: an Argentine fixer, a leftist French lawyer, and White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. Disguised as a middle-aged man, with a gray wig, mustache and tinted glasses, the 35-year-old Jordan has traveled several times to Europe for clandestine meetings with go-betweens...