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...state representative from Jamaica Plain received a $200,000 inheritance upon the death of a bag lady he had once helped with a housing matter...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: ...Meanwhile In Boston, The Biggest News Was Still the Sox | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

...state representative from Jamaica Plain received a $200,000 inheritance upon the death of a bag lady he had once helped with a housing matter...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: ...Meanwhile In Boston, The Biggest News Was Still the Sox | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

VOODOO (Disney) An innocent middle-class family returns from vacation in Jamaica with a voodoo witch doctor who turns New York upside down with his bag of tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Pipeline | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...that their institutions teach the tenets of the church. Parents comfortable with that arrangement are free to apply. "I'm not Catholic, but we're all serving the same God," says Betty Pitts, a black parent of two children in Our Lady of Lourdes elementary school in Boston's Jamaica Plain section. "When the children are grown, they'll make up their own minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Catholic Schools Do It Better? | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...bank's activities in the Third World, where by the early 1980s B.C.C.I. had become a potent geopolitical force. B.C.C.I. was especially adept at using offshore branches to help Third World countries frustrate attempts by international monetary authorities to force changes in their economies. The technique was perfected in Jamaica, where B.C.C.I. came to then Prime Minister Edward Seaga's aid when the International Monetary Fund refused to release $60 million of aid because of unpaid debts. B.C.C.I. stepped in with $48 million to straighten out Seaga's accounts after brokering the deal with the IMF, and passed the remainder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masters of Deceit | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

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