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Time was when it was difficult not to mention the Teamsters Union Central States Pension Fund and federal organized-crime investigations in the same breath. In one case after another, the feds found, the fund served as a cash cow for the Mafia, especially by investing in Mob-controlled Nevada casinos whose profits could easily be skimmed. By 1976 Central States, the largest multiemployer pension fund in the U.S., had nearly $250 million tied up in Nevada gambling operations...
Sure, compared to Screw magazine and the underground porn film industry which sometimes gets its "talent" by kidnapping, drugging, and then raping women on film, any mention of SI as "sexist" or "harmful" can be seen only as misplaced zeal, making the mag a victim of the anger and resentment it never imagined it would engender. And there are those who will find SI's title, "Ornaments of Society", a lighthearted, self-conscious joke--a joke on all who would take it seriousy as anything other than a shot of midwinter warmth, not to mention an ad-revenue extravaganza...
...week and two days, but also that many decrees of substance were put into operation under her personal super vision. The sad, unromantic truth of those nine days is that they constituted a reign in name only, fraught as they were with civil strife and disorder, not to mention differences of opinion among those directly manipulating the young queen. No actions for the poor were taken, no attempt was made to resolve the national inflation, and no move was initiated to improve education. Jane and Guilford had as little to do with politics after she became queen as they...
Hopefully, the end of renovations will not mean the end of the five large speed bumps along the driveway out of the Quad Alley. Oh, sure, driving a low-riding car over them can be killers on your axles, not to mention your muffler. But they slow down the shuttle so you can catch up to it if you miss its departure, and the bumps make an otherwise-dull bicycle ride a fun-filled adventure...
Meanwhile, officials at Harvard University Press, which published a book by Safran without mention of the CIA sponsorship, conceded that the publishing house was at fault for not disclosing the funding source...