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...only his latest career. Last year he was fired from his job as a sales manager at the Philadelphia office of Shearson Lehman Bros., a New York-based brokerage firm, after authorities began investigating % large unreported currency transactions at the company. Last week that investigation finished with a flourish: a federal grand jury indicted Shearson Lehman, Cantley and six other people on charges of laundering $1.2 million for an illegal gambling syndicate...
...Sullivan's Patience. + Appropriately cast as the Solicitor, Rehnquist made his one-night-only appearance during the finale of the first act. Having been persuaded by the heroine to rig a raffle so that she can win the man she loves, Rehnquist stepped forward and, with much judicial flourish, presented a large bowl filled with extra tickets. The Justice, who reappeared for a solo curtain call (Oyez! Oyez!), turned out to be a real trouper. Reports Savoyards' Nancy Low: "He offered to bring his own costume...
...campaign. Just two days before the balloting, however, Chancellor Fred Sinowatz urged voters to support Steyrer, suggesting that a Waldheim presidency would be a "risk" to the country's international reputation. Throughout the first round of campaigning, Waldheim showed himself to be an aggressive candidate. With a Madison Avenue flourish, he swept through the country accompanied by a dozen aides and five cars. At every stop, an entertainer was on hand to keep the waiting crowds amused, and young female supporters in white jumpsuits handed out stickers and autographed glossies of their man. On the hustings, the indefatigable former diplomat...
...flurry of agitation with the simple theme, Let's do the same elsewhere, everywhere. The hit-wish list is breathtakingly long, including South Korea, Indonesia, Pakistan and many others. Just pull the plug of U.S. support for all these nasty dictators, so goes the argument, and democracy will flourish...
...Fathers in their Enlightenment glow certainly considered liberty a universal principle. They also considered the emerging U.S. as a model of liberty for the rest of the world. But they had no illusions about how easy it might be to establish democratic governments elsewhere. Jefferson questioned whether democracy could flourish in all circumstances, suggesting that it might be effective only at certain times and places where conditions allowed. Today in most parts of the world it does not exist or is not understood. It is difficult to achieve in tribal, rigidly hierarchical or other traditional societies. It requires a sophisticated...