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...marked for delivery to Jordan or Syria but was routed through Miami or New Orleans, where it was secretly off-loaded. Former U.S. shipping agents who testified before the Florida grand jury told TIME they accepted $4.5 million in bribes from Bilbeisi for providing phony cargo manifests to fool U.S. customs officials. The shipping agents say they were able to dodge U.S. taxes because B.C.C.I. created false loans and transfers, then deposited the bribes in secret accounts in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking A Trail of Coffee and Cash | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...paean to transformative violence . . . An explicit fascist theme," writes social commentator John Leo, who went out prospecting for a column in U.S. News and World Report and discovered a mother lode of fool's gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender Bender Over Thelma & Louise | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

Then said I in my heart, I am no happier than the fool who has not studied, I get the same degree as the fool in Group V, I do not get into the right law school. Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Vanitas of Veritas | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...fool's voice knows a multitude of words, and may even start his own publication...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Vanitas of Veritas | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...started to fade. I began to wonder about schools that send out slick admission packages that cost $3 to mail. I was puzzled why my peers were so thunderstruck by the name of a school they knew little about. At the same time, of course, I felt like a fool even to question the worth of places like Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Required Reading | 5/24/1991 | See Source »

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