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...mention I’m not one of the more popular writers at 14 Plympton...
...records. Kroll conducts its research from offices in 66 cities, from Moscow to Sao Paulo to Hong Kong. During a trial run in Britain, Kroll checked the backgrounds of 1,400 job candidates from 37 countries and found that 80% of job seekers had glossed over or failed to mention negatives like dismissal or academic failure. Other Kroll programs have turned up some doozies, such as an accountant who lied about having worked at a firm in South Africa--to cover for the nine months she had spent in prison for fraud. The price per search starts at about...
Like most Japanese, I grew up around sake. The clear rice liquor--a fermented product somewhat similar to wine--infuses many important holidays and traditions here, not to mention poetry and cuisine. My father, an American who has lived in Japan for four decades, drinks it hot every night with dinner. My hometown, Kobe, produces nearly a third of the industry's yield. My mother's side of the family is even in the sake business. Still, until recently, I never cared much for the stuff. Its strong smell, fiery aftertaste and old-fashioned image seemed about as alluring...
...Difficult to believe, perhaps, in a region whose very survival is dependent on oil, but it was suddenly considered in bad taste to even mention the stuff. Nobody wanted to be accused of being a coffin chaser...
...profile of Uday Hussein, the psychotic elder son of Iraq's deposed dictator, is complete without a mention of his sadistic reign as Iraq's sports czar. In his capacity as head of Iraq's Olympic committee and also of its soccer federation, he is known to have ordered the torture of athletes who performed below his expectations...