Word: london
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...samples: a shroud cutting and three control pieces, one of which dated from the 1st century. The samples were chemically cleaned, burned to produce carbon dioxide, catalytically converted into graphite and then tested for carbon 14 isotopes to fix the date by calculating the amount of radioactive decay. Only London's British Museum, which coordinated the testing, knew which samples were which...
Madame Sousatzka (Shirley MacLaine) teaches piano and shares a London house with a few other distressed gentlefolk. They might all be sitting on a verandah above the Ganges a half-century ago, waiting for the subcontinental jewel to fall out of the imperial crown. But now Madame has taken on Manek (Navin Chowdhry), a gifted Indian lad, as her prize pupil. She will wage war with his beautiful mother (Shabana Azmi) over his time and loyalty. She will goad Manek to greatness and lose a bit of her heart...
...current incarnation as the Auntie Mame of films and chat shows. Her Madame is a cacophony of jangling bracelets and coquettish demands -- just the sort of acting that wins Oscars. Schlesinger's direction suits his star, with visual metaphors as subtle as a wrecking ball against a London house. Down goes the old world of nattering gentility; up comes the high-rise of Third World aspirations...
...which both bride and groom were undercover Customs agents, was an elaborate ruse designed to lure the jet- setting bankers back into U.S. jurisdiction from other countries. Within 72 hours after the Tampa trap was sprung, American and British customs agents arrested 40 bankers and narcotics traffickers in London and several U.S. cities on money laundering and other charges...
BCCI officials in London expressed astonishment at the arrests. Said BCCI in a statement: "The bank wishes to state categorically that at no time whatsoever has it knowingly been involved in drug traffic-related money laundering." While the arrests had no immediate impact on the bank's substantial legitimate operations, BCCI faces potentially severe penalties under the U.S. antilaundering law. Besides providing for as much as $28 million in possible fines, the U.S. law authorizes the seizure of narcotics- tainted money or assets, including businesses involved in trafficking and money laundering. Thus the bank's U.S. assets could be vulnerable...