Word: nigerian
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...original!’ This isn’t ‘challenging!’ It’s glossy! It’s mass-marketable! Maybe I just like it because it has subliminal messages! Isn’t there some Nigerian noisetronica group I should be listening...
...it’s as thrillingly fun as “Beverly Hills,” you’ve got nothing to complain about, guero. And if it’s as dull as the new Beck outing, you can always challenge yourself by listening to that Nigerian stuff for a while. But whenever you want to hear your hero’s voice, just secretly pop in his new material for a quickie. I mean, it’s not like you’re married or anything...
...friends quickly develop a written classification system to tell the sisters apart, but the twins remain oddities; classmates can't even spell Bessi's name right: "Georgia has big ears, Bessie don't." But the twins' suburban idyll is sometimes disturbed by the fear that their parents might divorce. Nigerian mother Ida finds her English husband Aubrey cold and distant. Their differing temperaments lead to occasional violent clashes, but they stay together, thanks to "the canyons of love a child can throw open." Outside the family's sometimes shaky cocoon (their house is No. 26; the book's title refers...
...wary--but that some bad guys also got hold of them. That's why the nation's largest data miner, whose computers maintain and manipulate 19 billion data files for clients ranging from the Cub Scouts to the CIA, found itself trying to explain last week how a Nigerian con artist posing as several small-business owners could extract data on 145,000 people. "They were careful not to trip the triggers, and they did pay their bills," James Lee, ChoicePoint's chief marketing officer, says of the fake businesses. But the Nigerian job did trigger a national debate...
...says, until Sinn Fein becomes a purely political organization. And that means the I.R.A. has to make a clean break from crime. - By Chris Thornton Bank Order SWITZERLAND The Supreme Court ordered the return to Nigeria of $458 million in accounts held by late military leader Sani Abacha. The Nigerian government has promised to spend the funds on health, education and infrastructure. Hard Graft? TURKEY Former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz appeared in court on corruption charges, the country's highest-ranking official ever to do so. The three-time PM is accused of rigging the privatization of a state-owned...