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...majority and by the many blacks and Hispanics who have struggled up to the middle class, or who remain poor but can see a better day for themselves or their children. Its members are victims and victimizers in the culture of the street hustle, the quick fix, the rip-off and, not least, violent crime...
...that he is out of the diplomatic game, Henry Kissinger likes being on the sidelines of a different match. The former Secretary of State and his son David, 16, a prep-school student in New England, were in the record crowd of 77,691 watching the New York Cosmos rip the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, 8-3, last week in East Rutherford, N.J. An ardent soccer enthusiast since his boyhood in Germany, Kissinger later chatted in German with Cosmos Stars Franz Beckenbauer and Werner Roth as the players relaxed in the whirlpool. He also shook the hand of the mighty Pele...
Only one of every 100 computer rip-offs is ever detected, according to an industry expert, although some reported frauds have been enormous. The biggest to date was the $2 billion Equity Funding scandal of 1973, in which 22 insurance company employees were convicted of inventing some 56,000 fake policies for resale to other insurance companies. Other binary burglars programmed Penn Central computers to divert 277 freight cars to an obscure Illinois railroad siding, where both cargo and cars were plundered. An electronics expert aged 19 gained access to Pacific Telephone & Telegraph terminals and managed to order $1 million...
...their time, make their pile for a house or plot of ground back home, and then leave with it," says a British shipping agent who has lived in Djibouti many years. "They get rich and Djibouti gets nothing. That's not enlightened colonialism. It's a bloody rip...
...hypnosis. Pazuzu gets mad as a hornet - or rather as a locust, the guise in which he usually appears. He makes Linda's eyes glow and flings her postpubescent body about like a beanbag. Soon she is back in that bedroom in Georgetown, where Burton tries to rip the heart - literally - out of her possessed alter...