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...vain (last year he underwent an operation to trim back his bulbous nose), he spent millions each month bribing a network of corrupt officials in the government. Those payments made him untouchable during the administration of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Now, however, they make him dangerous: the list of public officials in his pocket could cause a scandal of enormous proportions...
...list of alleged crimes (usually against children) is long and literally unbelievable. It comprises everything from bizarre rituals involving "magic rooms" and robots (R2D2 makes an appearance in one) to coprophagy and rape with sharp objects (in one case, a "sword in the rectum"). Fantastic physical traumas (e.g., the sword) yield not a shred of physical evidence. One child said her teacher had turned her into a mouse. For a myriad of such offenses, New Jersey preschool teacher Margaret Kelly Michaels was given 47 years. (Her conviction was overturned in 1993--after she had served five...
...read Primary Colors, I built my own code book--a list of the characters matched with their real-life counterparts. Around page 90 I gave up in exhaustion, having deciphered three dozen names (an insider's Who's Who that includes Grunwald, James Carville, Harold Ickes, David Wilhelm, Stan Greenberg, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas and Mario Cuomo). Some of the portraits are so deliciously vicious, I can only assume the author is settling personal scores. Take this description of the fictional stand-in for Hillary's much feared close friend Susan Thomases: "She was awful beyond imagining...
...moderate wing, announced he would not seek re-election this year--the 13th Senator to do so. Cohen attributed his decision to the current budget stalemate, prompting the White House to express concern over the political center's "capacity to govern." In the House of Representatives, meanwhile, the retirement list grew to 35, when Pennsylvania's William Clinger said he would quit...
Mexican authorities arrested and promptly deported to the U.S. Juan Garcia Abrego, one of the hemisphere's top suspected drug lords. Garcia Abrego, whom the FBI had placed on its 10-most-wanted list, faces trial in Houston on charges of running one of the region's most powerful cocaine operations. Authorities say his group is notorious for both its murderousness and its capacity for dispensing bribes. The U.S. hailed the Mexican action as sign of increasing drug cooperation...