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...other corporate news. Once armed with a tip, Levine dashed for the nearest pay phone to dictate orders to buy and sell stock to the manager of his secret Bahamas bank account. (When one offshore bank balked at carrying out such orders, Levine picked another out of the Nassau phone book.) "My God," he told himself after one spectacularly profitable purchase, "this is so easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Trades | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...gnome of Old Nassau is aggrieved. A student named Matthew Eastwick has thrown an errant pass, bouncing a basketball off another student's ankle. Knowing that Eastwick had scored perfect 800s on his College Board entrance tests merely compounds the gravity of this sin in the gnome's considered opinion. He dances past the offender, arms flapping, and plants the lance. "Eastie, Eastie," he rasps, in a voice that is part James Cagney, part Peter Lorre, part Bethlehem, Pa., "didja get someone else to take your College Boards for ya? Didja?" Eastwick stands transfixed, while his tormentor teeters (Could this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETE CARRIL: This Coach Stalks Overdogs | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...years the gnome of Old Nassau has conducted a seminar in human movement on the basketball court. Driving home his lessons, Carril molds underdogs who intimidate the overdogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Mar. 19, 1990 | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...While Nassau's nightlife is legendary, its food is generally nothing to write home about (just try to name a Bahamian culinary specialty.) That's why most spring breakers--afraid of sampling the native fare--will eat exclusively at the local outposts of some more familiar institutions: Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonalds and, yes, Taco Bell...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: When It Really Is Better in the Bahamas | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

After you tire of the casinos, you'll want to get to the popular nightclubs, and Nassau at night is a wild thing to behold...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: When It Really Is Better in the Bahamas | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

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