Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leaving the central site it had occupied for 80 years, preferably for a car-friendly location amid the strip malls and burger joints out of town. "They met with us on a Tuesday," says stunned city-council member Caron Cooper. "On Wednesday there was an ad in the paper soliciting bids for land." Dan Glick, a community activist, is peeved: "Those people gave us more say on whether the Elvis stamp would show the new Elvis or the old Elvis than they did on the future of our town...
...undated paper cites the 300,000-franc Swiss account of Hitler's tailor...
...undated paper records the debriefing of a certain Dr. Landwehr, who had directed the Nazi foreign-exchange department. "Dr. Landwehr estimates that all in all, the sum of German assets which passed into Switzerland amounted to at least 15 billion reichsmarks," said the report. "Landwehr dismissed with an ironic smile the Swiss estimate of 1 billion reichsmarks...
Christopher Darden has given up practicing law, but he's still chasing after the bad guys--at least on paper. The former prosecutor who turned anguishing courtroom defeat into cozy bestsellerdom has just signed on at Warner Books to co-author with Dick Lochte two mystery novels about a female African-American assistant district attorney. The first is tentatively titled Right of Conscience...
...bland middle-class normality in Canton, Ohio. His parents, a furniture salesman and a nurse, sent him to a strict Christian boarding school, which, he later said, "turned me against the hypocrisy of organized religion." At 18 he took a job as a rock journalist on a tiny Florida paper before deciding to launch his own career in music. In 1994 he was discovered by Trent Reznor, leader of the popular band Nine Inch Nails and one of the architects of "industrial rock," an abrasive offshoot of punk and heavy metal. With his first two records, Portrait of an American...