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...issued a list of more than 100 pardons. Tucked in among the names was that of Marc Rich., 65, one of the world's most wanted white-collar fugitives. In 1983, the brilliant, rapacious commodities trader, along with his partner, Pincus Green, was charged with an illegal oil-pricing scheme that amounted to what might be the biggest tax swindle in U.S. history, to the tune of almost $50 million - not to mention trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. The latter charge was later dropped against Rich's company but not against Rich and Green personally. (Not everybody...
...about "Survivor," I thought there was going to be this whole "Lord of the Flies" action going on. And I wouldn't be opposed to some actual violence. I understand that Richard was, as I mentioned before, a "snake," but, really, what did he do that was so slimy? Scheme to get people to vote for him? Big deal. Now, if he was scheming to have certain cast members barbecued, then I'm suddenly very, very interested...
Ashcroft became attorney general in 1977 and proceeded to build his reputation and power base opposing court-ordered school desegregation in St. Louis and Kansas City. He fought a 1983 voluntary-busing scheme for St. Louis, even though the 22 school districts in the surrounding white suburbs--where 12,000 inner-city kids would be transported every year--approved it. Among other things, he inveighed against the financial burden that the desegregation order imposed on the state--upwards of $100 million, he said, doubling the true cost, critics charged. Ashcroft appealed the federal-court ruling...
Frequent flyers pondered that question in the wake of an audacious, $5 billion five-carrier buyout proposal launched last week by American Airlines. Consumers were clearly skeptical of any scheme that would enable American and archrival United to control fully half of U.S. air travel. If the deal goes through, "the world is going to be divided up among just a few airline companies," says Bruce Edwards, a California doctor who was forced to return home via Miami last week after United canceled his flight from Ecuador to San Francisco, citing weather conditions. "It's not going to be very...
Being the smart cookies that we are, there can be no disputing that Harvard students should be the most inventive procrastinators around. We should find no scheme too outrageous to imagine or too elaborate to execute, provided that it keeps us as far away from the interior of Lamont as possible. But if creativity has gone the way of your clean underwear and you find yourself succumbing too often to the usual suspects--namely Brain Break and the Grille--fear not. A new diversionary tactic has hit the scene, and it's all but guaranteed to waste hours and hours...