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...begrudgingly concede the $7 million Park Avenue pad, the Palm Beach digs, the yachts, the French villa and the Montauk getaway. But no one believes he'll tell authorities where all the booty is stashed - not a chance, unless it saves him from walking the plank. It's the equivalent of the British government asking the infamous pirate Captain Kidd if he wouldn't mind handing over some of his treasure maps, pretty please...
...fury of many other anti-apartheid activists, however, she opposed the central plank of the worldwide anti-apartheid campaign - economic sanctions against South Africa - arguing that they hurt blacks more than whites. And while she earned the admiration and friendship of Mandela - in 1997 Mandela praised her "courage born of the yearning for freedom" and "hatred of oppression, injustice and inequity whether the victim be oneself or another" while awarding her a gold medal of honour - she did not flinch from criticizing his African National Congress (A.N.C.) once they won power. (See pictures of Mandela...
...chilly morning outside the hamlet of Reykjahlid in northern Iceland, Hallgrimur Jonasson lifts the edge of a soggy plank of wood lying in the clay to expose a small hole in the ground. "This is the rye-bread bakery," he says, yanking his hand back from a waft of scalding, sulfurous steam. A chef in a nearby hotel, Jonasson estimates his kitchen staff bake roughly three tons of the sweet, dense rye bread in the hole every summer to meet the growing demand, mostly from tourists, for the exotic carb. The bread's price tag - up nearly 20% from last...
...movie that had a lot of external disabilities—period, sports, the Depression, horse racing, no single star, an ensemble piece—and my colleagues appreciated the quality of the script, but were unsure about the investment. That was one I walked the plank for. I felt like it was speaking to a post-9/11 country,” Snider said. “It wasn’t just a relic or historical footnote, but rather an incredible human interest story about people prevailing against the odds.” “Seabiscuit?...
...getting sick and tired; hell, it’s starting to look like there’s such thing as ‘too mean’. And hey, not to sass back here, but since when did mistrust of everything ain’t white become a party plank for us?” “Probably about the same time trillion-dollar deficit spending and torture did. Let me ask you: When has the miscegenation card not worked? Bang that drum: Have you seen these crowds Sarah’s been drawing? Talk about fired...