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Babette takes drugs but not your average drugs. Responding to a tabloid advertisement--"Live Forever!"--she becomes involved in an illicit experiment, ingesting secret pills to assuage her Fear of the Unknown. Jack is clued into her shenanigans and, typically enough in this novel, confronts her with his suspicions over the kitchen tabl. It is a touchy subject for Babette: "To the best of my knowledge, Jack, I'm not taking anything that could account for my memory lapses. On the other hand I'm not old. I haven't suffered an injury to the head and there's nothing...
Before reading, Rich humorously recalled her undergraduate years at Radcliffe. She noted her former haunts, "cavernous cheap coffee-plans," as well as the books stores and libraries where she got her "independent education." She also recounted sitting in Whitman Hall "drinking illicit apricot brandy form a cologne bottle...
...Warner, the owner of Home State and formerly a heavy investor in E.S.M. Last week a group of Home State depositors filed a $432 million lawsuit claiming that the bank invested in E.S.M. "not because it was prudent or even safe to do so, but rather because of the illicit financial benefits conferred upon Warner." The suit maintains that Home State will lose at least $144 million from its dealings with E.S.M...
...billion or so that criminals "greenwashed" through institutions in the U.S. last year represents a manyfold increase since 1974. By following these illicit funds to their sources, federal agents hope to nab the high rollers of drug dealing, loan sharking, illegal gambling and prostitution. And since banks are often a key link in the laundering process, the Feds want to get tough about the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, which instructs banks and other financial concerns to file a report (Internal Revenue Service Form 4789) whenever they accept more than $10,000. By running the forms through computers, investigators...
...lawyers have made themselves "integral parts" of today's complex criminal enterprises, said the report. They guide the laundering of illicit money through a maze of banks, real estate investments and other transactions. They provide up-to-date counsel on how to minimize legal exposure--for example, by drilling operatives on what to do and say when they are arrested. Using the shield of attorneyclient confidentiality, full-time Mob lawyers lend their offices as unbugged meeting places for the planning of new schemes. When lawyers commit crimes to "protect the leaders of criminal cartels," said Irving Kaufman, commission chairman...