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They weren't the kind of deposit one slips through the slot at the ATM. According to the New York Times, Russian mobsters are thought to have laundered billions of dollars through an old-line American financial institution, the Bank of New York. Investigators, tipped off by British authorities, spotted some $4.2 billion flowing through one account in more than 10,000 transactions from October to March of this year. The total could be as high as a staggering $10 billion ? double the size of Russia's latest IMF bailout check. The target of investigators is Semyon Yukovich Mogilevich...
...there is another worry: influence peddling. "Whenever any mob pulls down this kind of money, you have to be concerned about its possible political influence," says TIME's William Dowell. Especially when the mob in question is based in a country where capital is flying out of the country at hyper-speed and allegations of kickbacks and corruption permeate the government all the way to the office of President Boris Yeltsin. Those suspicions have led to speculation that Yeltsin's ongoing game of Whack-a-Mole with his cabinet is an attempt to ensure that a friendly, non-prosecutorial government...
...washing its hands [of the problem]." Holding that view requires courage. In a survey commissioned by the G.O.P., 60% of those polled said they were less likely to vote for Bradley after hearing his position on welfare. If there's anyplace in America where people still swoon over that kind of rhetoric, you'd think it would be the annual convention of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition...
Greenville is the kind of place where the wild kids cruising down North Main lean out their windows and shout, "Jesus loves you!" But the church folk in town knew members didn't always practice what was preached. They might have a food bank, might donate Christmas toys and Thanksgiving baskets, but long-term, hands-on care was left to government experts, the professional social workers. "We were like 911," says Wilhelmena Tucker, a volunteer from Foster Grove Baptist Church. "We would help in an emergency, but when the emergency was over, there was no follow...
...Brown, the town's part-time mayor, doesn't care for the film's subject matter--"When it comes to witchcraft, we're a Christian community"--but is savvy enough to have ordered up a town website to set the record straight. Other locals see Blair Witch as a kind of mistaken-identity comedy. "Everybody's kind of laughing," says Robin Goetz, a library clerk. "Why, no one could get lost in our woods. All you'd have to do to get out is walk down toward the farm property...